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Word: shake (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...each. Congressional stars like Howard Baker and Warren Magnuson can easily raise $50,000 through these affairs. Democrat Lud Ashley, chairman of the House Energy Committee, held a bash in July and netted about $30,000. Lesser lawmakers barely break even, but can't seem to shake the habit of staging such parties anyway. "It's one of the seamy sides left in lobbying," protests one of the ticket-buying victims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Swarming Lobbyists | 8/7/1978 | See Source »

...nonsense like this, anything seems funny. The film's next best bit occurs when Clouseau is thought to be dead. One of his co-detectives (Herbert Lom), driven crazy by Clouseau, is asked to deliver the eulogy. He hates Clouseau so much that as he speaks his shoulders shake and his face contorts. The mourners interpret these convulsions as grief, but we know the man is giggling. Really dedicated Panther degenerates refuse to leave the theater when the lights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bright Clouseau | 8/7/1978 | See Source »

...never shake the image. At 43, Francoise Sagan is still, in the minds of many, the enfant terrible of French letters whose precocious first novel, Bonjour Tristesse (1954), was so successful that it enabled her to adopt a reckless life-style of expensive fast cars, gambling and good whisky. True, true. But Sagan has also found time to spin off twelve more novels and nine plays. Her latest dramatic effort, scheduled for a Paris opening in the autumn, is called It's Nice Day and Night and is laced with familiar themes: an adulterous affair, alienation, the triumph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 7, 1978 | 8/7/1978 | See Source »

...still the kid who quit school, I'm still the kid who ran away from home three times, I still left the Air Force early...when I finally enacted these postures publicly and was applauded for it, the cycle was completed and I could turn around and shake hands with myself and proceed to my adulthood...

Author: By David A. Demilo and Susan C. Faludi, S | Title: George Carlin's Coming of Age | 7/25/1978 | See Source »

...Force early 'cause we didn't get along, and I still had all of these problems adjusting to the way they had laid it out. So when I finally enacted these rebellious postures publicly and was applauded for it, the cycle was completed and I could turn around and shake hands with myself and proceed to my adulthood...

Author: By David A. Demilo and Susan C. Faludi, S | Title: George Carlin's Coming of Age | 7/25/1978 | See Source »

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