Word: sickness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that slowed down half the city; the scramble for tickets at the box office sparked off a riot; the theater reported an average of 23 vomitings and fainting fits per performance, and promptly jacked up the admission price. And although a crew of nurses was hired to help the sick and security guards to herd the crowds, and extra movie showings were scheduled, the authorities, citing the movie as a riot hazard, still intervened and forced the theater to distribute other prints of the movie throughout the Los Angeles metropolis. Then all these other theaters took similar precautions...
Administration strategists are candid in their expectations. "I really think this is going to turn things around," said one "People are sick and tired of all the grubby sneaking around that's been going on. We're going to take all that and put it right out into the open. LOVE will be like a breath of fresh...
...your article "The Big Car: End of the Affair" [Dec. 31], I find it distressing, sick, and almost unimaginable that there is little that can replace the gluttonous oversized cars as a part of the American dream. For a Christian nation, we sure are hung up on the tangibles anyway...
...results of a 14-week-long study at a Navajo boarding school show that the students taking large daily doses of Vitamin C were sick an average of 32 per cent fewer days than those students who were administered look-alike placebos...
...serve. Sponsored by Joseph Papp at his lower Manhattan dramatic -arts com plex, the Public Theater, it reflects his le gitimate dismay at the social and polit ical gangrene spread by the Viet Nam War. Unfortunately, it is difficult to transpose the My Lai massacre into a sick South Pacific. Nonetheless, if the hard-rock band does not split a play goer's skull, some of the farcically outrageous and libidinous goings-on may tickle his ribs...