Word: seamier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Delaware and Potomac rivers will be analyzed, along with those of two Soviet rivers yet to be designated. More broadly, the general urban environmental problems of San Francisco and Atlanta will be compared with those of Leningrad and another Soviet city. Each nation, in short, will be examining the seamier side of the other, perhaps marking a new maturity in two powers long inclined to hide comparative weaknesses...
Boston Garden is the second ugliest empty building in the city. (The ugliest is the Boston Arena, home of high school hockey and Boston's seamier wrestling shows.) The Garden has bad acoustics, bad atmosphere, a consistent tendency to trap smoke, exposed rafters, and uncomfortable chairs. It also has more seats than most promoters can handle. Which is why there is an alert group standing by the press gate on Monday evening. Because on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, the Rolling Stones will fill the cavern with people, mostly young...
...Columbia and a onetime clerk at Brentano's Manhattan bookstore, Miss Holland recently moved to a commune in Pasadena, Calif., having become deeply involved with the world of West Coast rock. Her former publisher, Atheneum, refused to publish Cold Iron, because the company felt the book's seamier sides would damage the author's standing with her regular readership. She then offered it to McCall, which brought it out under a nom de plume concocted from the name of her agent, Roberta Pryor...