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Word: supers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other issue, last week's jour ney, in the words of Presidential Assistant Hamilton Jordan, demonstrated Carter's willingness to go "the final, extra mile." The goal, of course, was momentous: an end to more than 30 years of warfare that repeatedly threatened to draw the American and Soviet super powers into a clash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Final, Extra Mile | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

...disturbing, scary movie, and most viewers, especially women, are turned off by Nolte's super-masculine individualism. In truth, Who'll Stop the Rain? only scratches the surface of these sordid time. But it makes the effort, matched only in this strangely apolitical decade by Chinatown. I admire that, and maybe you will too; Paramount put no money into promotion and it opened and closed most places last August in a week. If you can, watch the reaction of the Cambridge audience, as Moriarty and Weld (people very much like your normal Cambridge intellectual) are forced to rely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In a World Where Flying Men Hunt Elephants......People Will Just Naturally Want to Get High | 3/15/1979 | See Source »

Though Silverman, the "super programmer," usually has all the publicity, particularly since becoming NBC's president last year, many observers in the industry think that Pierce is really the better programmer. Organized and low key in temperament, he has largely done away with the second guessing and last-minute, panicky decisions that plague his competitors. If there have been any internal tremors since Silverman's defection, they are not evident. Tony Thomopoulos, Silverman's replacement, seems a perfect subaltern to the superefficient Pierce. "The network is working as well as or better than when Silverman was here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chaos in Television | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

...Super's upper lip remains stiff until, on the trail of a London killer, Doug las locates a clandestine German atomic installation on England's south coast. Struggling to find his bearings in a maze of intrigue and counterintrigue, Archer joins a Resistance conspiracy to spirit the King out of the country and the atomic secrets into American hands. Things do not work out that simply. No Len Deighton plot ever does. In his unraveling, the au thor of The Ipcress File and Funeral in Berlin produces a series of memorable set pieces. In one celebrating German-Soviet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ungreened Isle | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

Navy's Mark Heinrich successfully defended his title in the 100-yd. backstroke and became the first non-aligned (with super-powers Harvard or Princeton, that is) swimmer to take an event at the championship...

Author: By John S. Bruce, | Title: Aquamen Retain Slim Lead in Easterns | 3/3/1979 | See Source »

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