Word: soso
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...column is a mishmash with an uneven history. After Pearson's death in 1969, the heir suffered dry periods in which his output was only soso. Not even Jack Anderson can find an interesting piece of skulduggery every day. So he relates, in tones of breathless outrage, such gossip as a 1970 bit about the then mayor of Tucson, James Corbett Jr., allegedly barging uninvited into a young woman's Washington hotel room and biting her knee (Corbett lost the subsequent election). Anderson also polices the drinking habits of Capitol Hill (he is an abstemious Mormon) and waxes...
...facade is deceptive: busy, brightly decorated city streets, department stores full of holiday shoppers, the freeway humming with traffic. The Seattle SuperSonics are drawing sizable crowds at the Seattle Center Coliseum in the shadow of the Space Needle; their record is soso, but they are making money and their attendance is fourth in the N.B.A. M*A*S*H. now in its eighth month at the downtown Coliseum Theater, is still pulling them in at $2.50 per seat. All over town, station KIRO-TV's billboards ask, HAVE YOU HEARD A GOOD ONE LATELY?-part of a good-news...