Word: runaways
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...more important to the revival of Sha Na Na than the change in format, is a new attitude and style. The group has slowed down its entire performance. Sha Na Na no longer sprints through its program like a runaway street car. The songs that had become mechanized and two-dimensional are now calmer and more personal. Of course, the group has had to sacrifice quantity for quality, but it is a sacrifice that rock and roll lovers everywhere should welcome...
Lozana appealed to the local union members in the crowd: "Don't you let any of these New England manufacturers leave here so that they can come to the Southwest and expect to exploit us in runaway shops...
...last works, a tetralogy called The Sea of Fertility, has the eerie effect of making him seem the fastest and most prolific dead writer in history. A bit more than a year ago came the English translation of the first posthumous volume, Spring Snow. Last summer it was Runaway Horses. Now we have The Temple of Dawn...
...Spring Snow, the dreamy and aristocratic hero Kiyoaki Matsugae died a vaporously youthful death. He becomes Isao, the fanatic young political conspirator of Runaway Horses. In The Temple of Dawn, Kiyoaki/Isao is again transformed, this time into Ying Chan, a lovely Thai princess. The witness to all three incarnations is a wonderfully subtle spiritual voyeur named Honda, a rationalist Japanese judge and lawyer. Honda, like a principle of embattled moral intelligence, acts as Mishima's civilized guide through the mysteries of love, death, political tragedy and reincarnation...
...nation's marketplaces loudly confirmed the urgency of the economic problem. The Wholesale Price Index for August ballooned by 5.8%, the biggest monthly increase since 1946 and the third biggest since the Government started keeping such records in 1902. Nearly all of the increase was caused by runaway farm-level prices for food, which rose by an astronomical 23.1% in a month-a new record by far and an inflation rate usually associated with banana republics...