Search Details

Word: season (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Star Trek: The Motion Picture--Surely the highlight of the Hollywood Christmas season is this week's release of the long-awaited Star Trek movie. At more that $49 million, Gene Roddenberry's epic-to-be is one of the most expensive films ever made. But the high price tag is for a good cause--a guaranteed audience of devoted trekkies has been waiting for this one for ten years. They're selling reserved seats in most theaters, but if you bribe the doorman, you're bound...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From Hollywood for the Holidays | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

...best part is the soaps. The soap opera Christmas season begins as soon as the World Series ends, and it proceeds in a hysterical fashion for three more months, milking the advertisers' good cheer for every last dime. Turn on a soap in the last quarter of the year. Even odds says some kid--whose father is in jail because they say he killed his wife's boyfriend who is not really her boyfriend because she is actually having an affair with her husband's sister--is discussing with his good-hearted grandfather where to spend the holidays. The grandfather...

Author: By Jeff Toobin, | Title: How Television Steals Christmas | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

...that's what Christmas is all about, isn't it? Television lives off the advertisers and advertisers live off the Christmas season. And since Christmas does not come during the "sweep" weeks--the times when the Nielsen ratings determine the prices for advertising time--the networks just let loose with every possible angle to lubricate the wallets of its viewers...

Author: By Jeff Toobin, | Title: How Television Steals Christmas | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

...Crimson opened its season with a victory over Northeastern, but has since lost twice, to RPI and Providence. Greg Olson leads the icemen with four goals and two assists for a total of six points...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Icemen Ready For Terriers | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

Things like running a corporation should have excited him, but they didn't. Paunch occluded his once-athletic figure, but he always had a reason not to exercise. He remembered with distant fondness his summers in Ontario's north woods. The holiday season seemed a good time to return to nature...

Author: By Larry Grafstein, | Title: In the Arctic, You Are Not Alone | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

Previous | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | Next