Word: sweeter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Banning the buss has made parting a sweeter sorrow. "Kissing is up 100%," says Assistant Village Manager Marjorie Emery. Reports Commuter Lawrence Rosskin: "I take a later train so my wife and I can linger under the sign a while." So popular are the signs that they must be taken down on Fridays and erected again on Mondays to keep them from being ripped off. The town has even taken out a copyright and plans to mass-produce the emblems on poster board at $15 a pair. Deerfield has just one more problem to solve. The congestion around the station...
...between Macmillan and Mattel, Inc., the California-based toymaker that grew big on sales of Barbie dolls but which is still less than one-third ABC's size. ABC's offer of $335 million for a controlling 55% of Macmillan's shares was just $6 million sweeter than Mattel's bid, but the betting was that it would be accepted...
...Workers, whose contract expires Sept. 14, sit down with representatives of General Motors to fashion an industrywide settlement. No one is ruling out a strike. U.A.W. President Douglas Fraser, who initially supported the guidelines, has been talking tougher as negotiations near. Among other things, the union will seek a sweeter COLA and a shorter work week to ensure job security for more workers...
Count Dracula has always been something of a romantic. Given his undead state and his all too literal bloodthirstiness, his problem has ever been to find a socially (not to say legally) acceptable way of expressing his sweeter side. It is the funny premise of this movie that it required the intervention of the U.S. (circa 1970-79) to make the count begin to look good, despite his obvious kinks, to a lady...
Pianos, dulcimers, bass, and, of course, guitars take turns backing up the vocalists, but the truly outstanding sounds are those of the singers themselves. Some pretty amazing guitarists play Passim--Guy Van Duser really shines. It's music sweeter than wine, and that's not such a bad thing these days with the drinking age where...