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Word: spectatorly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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"Ho ho ho-oh! Ho ho ho-oh!" What looks like a sidewalk Santa, sounds like a sidewalk Santa, panhandles like a sidewalk Santa, but isn't, according to some, a legitimate sidewalk Santa? Why, a Hare Krishna Santa, of course. This year, Hare Krishna Santa, have stepped up their...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hare Christmas | 12/8/1978 | See Source »

Curry, 29, an Englishman who won the gold medal for men's figure skating at the 1976 Olympics, was inevitably offered high-paying jobs by various ice shows. He turned them all down to pursue his own vision. "I don't like to criticize them," he told a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Ballet Dancing on the Ice | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

Maybe you didn't know, and perhaps you don't care, but if you were to ask, the White House could tell you that Jimmy Carter's favorite color is blue. The President of the U.S. is 5 ft. 9 in. tall, weighs 155 Ibs., has a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Things You Never Asked | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

"She slapped me and said, 'There are no classes in America!' Then she said, 'Of course there are, but we never talk about it.' " Most Americans have only a spectator's interest in the problems of social kissing (a phenomenon they witness mainly on Johnny Carson) or in the protocol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's New Manners | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

"I'm here because I'm interested in federalism," fellow spectator Samuel H. Beer, Eaton Professor of Government, told me as we looked at the melee. He said he was doing some informal research for his course, Government 147, "American Federalism," and sat down to offer some wisdom on the...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: The Cost of Doing Nothing | 9/22/1978 | See Source »

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