Word: snip
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Samtur says that by making the most of coupons she is able to snip 40% to 60% off her food bill every time she shops, for an average savings of $40 or more a week. Moreover, she claims that by taking maximum advantage of refunds, in which manufacturers promise cash rebates to consumers for trying their products, she reaps an additional $1,500 annually...
After sneak showings of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Steven Spielberg cut only the background song, When You Wish Upon a Star, from the final spacecraft scene, but that small snip changed the mood of the story. "I felt the song was going to be perceived as wistful thinking," says the director today. "The audience perceived the film as a current event." Spielberg may return the song to the soundtrack in what must surely be the most extraordinary case of film tinkering ever: he is readying a revised version of Close Encounters, one of the top ten grossers...
...long as six weeks. This is the worst German steel confrontation in 50 years, and by mid-January it will slow auto and electronics production. So, while Europe heads into the new year with more vigor than the U.S., the year of the scissors will be no snip...
...Paul has given me is to set the stage for the life he moves in," she says. But for fear that perfection would itself be an imperfection, Bunny carries with her a pair of scissors, notes Capote. "When things are looking a little too neat, she takes a little snip out of a chair or something so that it will have that lived-in look...
With a deft snip of the scissors and some decidedly un-frantic clawing at 30-year old wrapping paper, Harley Holden, curator of the University archives, yesterday opened a package containing papers of former Harvard president A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, all of which apparently relate, as expected, to the Sacco-Vanzetti case...