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Word: tempts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Firecrackers. ABC programming executives promptly decided to keep Tuscadero and her bike in high gear. She will probably not be around to tempt the Fonz again for a while, but she may be riding off on her own. The network is rushing ahead with a pilot for a new series featuring Kelly as Pinky. (Happy Days has already spawned one successful spinoff, Laverne and Shirley.) Kelly, a New York actress who played a hooker in Deathwish and Barbra Streisand's roommate in The Owl and the Pussycat, says she knew the Fonzie-in-love idea would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Pink Passion | 10/11/1976 | See Source »

Worse than all this is the movie's at tempt to make the audience accept such heavy, not to say klutzy, actors as Shaw and James Earl Jones as light-leaping, far-darting heroes. They work earnestly at trying to dance on air, but the strain shows. All that can be said is that their clumsiness matches that of the film's writing and direction. Swashbuckler sinks under its own weight like an over loaded galleon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sunken Galleon | 8/30/1976 | See Source »

...engagement must be like - the large distances separating the antagonists when they launch their planes, the sickening speed with which the flames spread when they find their targets. But there is no real sense of the flow of fortune in the battle - the camera shies away from any at tempt at analysis. The Japanese, led by Toshiro Mifune, are neatly dressed and stoic (a useful virtue if most of your dialogue has to be dubbed into English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Common Sensurround | 7/12/1976 | See Source »

Individual students' work in this exhibit is fascination and often well-executed. But the orientation of the VES Department and the artistic inhibition that seems to prevail, tempt one to ask, with the anonymous spray-can graffartisit whose work exhibits itself on the second-floor landing of Carpenter; "OU SONT LES POULETS D'ANTANT...

Author: By Eleni Constantine, | Title: Galleries | 5/28/1976 | See Source »

While the Crimson varsity remains unchanged since San Diego (why tempt fate?). Parker has shifted personnel in the J.V. Dave Beghossian, who stroked last year's freshman boat, will fill the stroke's seat left vacant by Murray Beach who resigned last week...

Author: By Amy Sacks, | Title: Crimson Rowers Defend Title In Regatta on Charles Today | 4/17/1976 | See Source »

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