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Word: somehow (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...movie, however, has some problems, most of which involve the loss of that vital energy generated in a concert hall where everyone else is high along with you. Instead, you see the Dead in a movie theater, and somehow the feeling just doesn't communicate that well. The footage itself is excellent, featuring good camera work and more shots of Jerry Garcia's grungy fingernails than you ever thought possible. In many ways it is stock rock film stuff-pans of the audience cutting to tightly focused shots of Garcia's hirsute mug or Phil Lesh's rather spaced...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Movies for the Dead | 12/14/1977 | See Source »

...question the nutritional claims of a lot of these cereals," said Freitas, whose prosecutor's office handles consumer fraud complaints. "That, coupled with what appears to us to be misleading ads which encourage kids to believe that a product will somehow make them champion athletes, led us to take action." Freitas' suit demanded proof that Tenner really eats the cereal and that he had done so since childhood. "I like Wheaties, and I eat them two or three times a week," retorted an indignant Tenner at a press conference organized by General Mills. "When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Bruce's Bowl | 12/5/1977 | See Source »

...weeks after conception, when the embryo is still sexually neutral, the signal causes the development of testes, a source of male hormones. In the case of the XX males, however, the male factor, apparently consisting of a bit of genetic material-possibly no more than a single gene-is somehow attached to a chromosome other than the usual Y. The proof of this aberration came from an immunological experiment; white blood cells from an XX male were mixed -and then reacted-with a test antiserum. That reaction was confirmation of the presence of the so-called H-Y or "male...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Making Sure About Sex | 12/5/1977 | See Source »

...himself, as this compassionate biography shows, Delmore Schwartz is the ruin on which others have built. "I think I've never met anyone who has somehow as much seeped into me," Lowell once said, delivering a tribute haunted enough even for Schwartz. - Melvin Maddocks

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Humboldt's Model | 12/5/1977 | See Source »

...poise is soon put to extraordinary tests. Terrorists, for no discernible reason, begin to blow up cars in his tranquil Seville neighborhood. A waiter at his favorite restaurant serves him a martini containing a huge fly. His butler, ordinarily a paragon of civility, starts to give him Up. Somehow Mathieu remains untouched by all these shenanigans, but then he falls in love with Conchita, a ravishing young virgin. Though Conchita professes to adore Mathieu with an ardor equal to his own, she will not go to bed with him-and will not say why. Such torture is more than even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Orderly Chaos | 12/5/1977 | See Source »

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