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Word: skins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...myself before my next trip to the U.S. Tell me, though, is it good form to throw drinks at drivers of gas guzzlers-those polluters of my air or does one slash tires? Also, are those antismoker sprays aerosol? If so, there goes the ozone layer, and I get skin cancer. Is shin-kicking of aerosol wielders 'in," or do you cut off ties with scissors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 15, 1978 | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

Rules of the Game. At the Central Square, daily at 5:30 and 9:40. With The Soft Skin at 7:30. Wknd...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FILM | 5/4/1978 | See Source »

...garish colors seemed to produce a falsification. If any world needed to be filmed in black and white, it was what French Writer David Rousset called I'univers concentrationnaire. All that obscenity transpired in an absence of color: ashes and smoke were gray, the SS uniforms black, the skin ash white, the bones white. Franz Stangl, the commandant of Sobibor, used to greet the trains wearing a white riding costume...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Television and the Holocaust | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

...worth a rap." From the frozen taiga of Siberian Yakutia came the informed opinion of Farm Worker I. Volkov that Harris' trial was "a gross violation of the Helsinki agreement." According to Oil Worker A. Pamuratov in Tashkent, Harris was convicted "solely because of his dark skin." In sum, concluded Tass last week, "the Soviet people resolutely demand a halt to the execution of Johnny Harris-a fighter for the civil rights of black Americans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUMAN RIGHTS: The Strange Case of Johnny Harris | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

...giving financially squeezed editors little incentive to raise their rates. Consumer prices have nearly doubled in the past decade, but the average payments for major articles (roughly 3,000 words) by the ten largest-circulation magazines have risen by only onefourth. A few markets have become more lucrative: the skin magazines ($2,250 for Playboy, $1,200 for Hustler) and some city and regional magazines ($1,000 at New West, $1,100 at Texas Monthly). But other magazines have not raised rates at all: Washington Monthly has been paying writers the same 100 a word for the past eight years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Grub Street Revisited | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

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