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Word: screens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mighty, Band of Brothers). He wrote, directed and sold a movie while still in high school, talked his way into the Yale Drama School without bothering with the usual formality of attending college, worked for a while as an assistant to Leon Leonidoff, the Radio City impresario, and filmed screen tests for Warner Bros., all before he thought of learning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Full Flaps | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

...third quarter, Harvard proceeded to tie the game at 6-6 on Bosnic's second field goal, a 35-yarder that split the uprights. Brown moved the Crimson into scoring position with a drive that started with an impromptu screen pass to Connors. He carried it down to the ten-yard line, only to have the play called back because of a holding penalty. However, on the next play from scrimmage, Brown hit Ralp Polillio curling in on the left sideline for an 18-yd, gain that set up the score...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Columbia Surprises Gridders in First Game, 21-19 | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

...first year came Dallas, and later Richard Nixon, the man who was mesmerized by Connally. He became Secretary of the Treasury, but Nixon tantalized him with the vision of being his Vice President and finally moving into the Republican mainstream and the presidency. That is the kind of wide-screen thinking John Connally liked. Too much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: He'll Let Us Know | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

Wherever he wandered, Willie sang and played guitar in local honky-tonks, at times performing behind a chicken-wire screen set up to protect musicians from flying beer bottles. Out of this harsh apprenticeship came one of his earliest and best songs, a neon-lit lament called Night Life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Country's Platinum Outlaw | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

...answer, as anyone knows who has been watching TV promotion spots lately, is ABC's new series Battlestar Galactica, perhaps the most blatant rip-off ever to appear on the small screen. The show ripped off, naturally, is Star Wars, which Galactica copies in nearly everything but wit and talent. As a result, even before the show premieres this Sunday, it has been caught up in legal controversy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Small-Screen Star Wars | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

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