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Word: sickness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fail. I believe in going against everything, and I think audiences will want to be challenged, provoked and moved." Maybe so. But producers who agree might bear in mind that the hit of 1977, Star Wars, was revived in 1978 and for two months made everybody else look sick at the box office. (Long since the movie earner of all time, it has now grossed $267 million worldwide.) Why? Apparently because a younger and younger film audience is delighted to see a show it loves not once but four and five times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bottom-Line Time in Hollywood | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

...conferences of truckers. Carter has pledged to make environmental and safety regulation less costly and appointed an interagency council to comb out overlapping and contradictory rules. Unfortunately, the council is made up of the regulators themselves. Weidenbaum dismisses it as "the sinners gathering together to protect themselves-a sick joke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: 1979 Outlook: Recession | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

...biggest problems I feel is my inability to cope with rejection. I wanted to make it in society so I could completely make myself over so that some guy would want to marry and I would get the love and attention I felt needed. This type of sick attitude makes me dangerous to socialism because I could be too easily used by any male I felt attracted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Anguishing Letters to Dad | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

...well with most other economic policymakers, notably Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal and Chief Economic Adviser Charles Schultze. Just about everybody in Washington agrees that Kahn is talented, if a bit of a ham, but that he needs to direct himself better. Kahn concurs: "I'm getting pretty sick of talking about all the things I'm going to do. I want to devote more time to the substance of this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Yes, We Have No Bananas | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

...been through such a thing before-but through it all they never lost their strong, if off, collective sense of humor. And they had the Pong machine and the 13-ball Foosball game to keep us amused. Still, it came down to about fifty of us sitting around, sick of being inside, sick of sitting in a basement and eating hamburgers and frozen french fries. Californians don't take the inside too well. There were a lot of quarters plunked into the two machines until Joe "got tired of making' change and, ah hell, might as well make them free...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Snowbound in Utah | 12/8/1978 | See Source »

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