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Word: sun (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wichitans finally have an alternative, and one that arrived in unusual circumstances. First, the Sun is a weekly attempting to compensate with depth and flair for what it lacks in immediacy. Second, it is and will continue to be distributed free, an arrangement that normally signals bottom-of-the-barrel journalism. Most curious of all, the Sun was launched last month by KAKE-TV & Radio, Inc., Wichita's prosperous ABC affiliate. That was a reversal of tradition; in the past, newspapers have organized or acquired broadcast properties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Wichita Sunrise | 11/18/1974 | See Source »

...Paper Moon (ABC, Thursday, 8:30 p.m. E.S.T.) is cute rather than awesome, as befits what is intended to be a comedy. An ever-open convertible is often glimpsed gleaming invitingly in the ceaselessly shining sun. The car is a symbol of the footloose lifestyle Moze and Addie Pray (Christopher Connelly and Jodie Foster) have chosen as the best way for con man and girl to survive the Depression '30s. It is, apparently, a rolling Camelot. The pair have yet to encounter any bad weather, let alone any bad vibes on ABC the roads they (theoretically) share with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Viewpoints: Nostalgia on Wheels | 11/11/1974 | See Source »

...fashioned a spectacle dominated by horses: actors who bear on their heads equine masks and on their feet wear 6-in.-high hoofs that thud with the menace of a jungle drum. Shaffer has been fascinated by mask drama ever since he wrote The Royal Hunt of the Sun, about the conquistador Pizarro in Peru. At his suggestion, Inca funeral masks were worn by the Indians in the last act. "Nobody could think how they should look during Pizarro's speech over the corpse of Atahuallpa," explained Shaffer. "I thought of the masks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Showman Shaffer | 11/11/1974 | See Source »

...middle-class family turned into a pack of cannibals. His next work, the hit comedy double bill The Private Ear and The Public Eye, did not appear until 1962. He is a slow, easily distracted writer. It took him six years to finish The Royal Hunt of the Sun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Showman Shaffer | 11/11/1974 | See Source »

PRINCETON, N.J.--The Harvard football team, showing an awesome display of offensive firepower for the second consecutive week, turned aside a sky-high and determined Princeton squad, 34-17, before more than 31,000 sun-drenched fans here at Palmer Stadium Saturday...

Author: By Ellen A. Cooper and Andrew P. Quigley jr., SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSONS | Title: Harvard Upends Princeton, 34-17, in Wild Battle | 11/11/1974 | See Source »

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