Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...million visitors-v. 1.2 million in 1975-and spent an extra $500,000 to prepare for them. Instead, potential tourists, pinched by inflation and recession and frightened by forecasts of bumper-to-bumper traffic at historic sites, stayed home. Attendance topped the 1975 figure by only a few thousand; during the fall and winter, visitors were so few that Williamsburg laid off 3% of its staff...
Perfect Recall. Why, then, is The Greatest such an agreeable experience? The answer is that The Greatest, a.k.a. Muhammad Ali - who created this role originally for sportswriters and polished it before a thousand television audiences - has now immortalized it on celluloid with perfect ease and confidence. In real life he has become a bit of a bore, especially as his skills in his higher calling, as perhaps the most artful heavy weight in history, have slipped. But .if he can no longer quite remember what to do in the ring, his recall of his marvelous performances outside it is perfectly...
...mobile command station, the impregnable Death Star, able to destroy whole planets with a single energy burst, and at this very moment she is being interrogated by Darth Vader, Dark Lord of the Sith, and the Grand Moff Tarkin-probably the nastiest pair of villains in the thousand worlds. What, they want to know, has she done with the stolen secret plans of the Death Star? If those computerized blueprints reach her rebel friends, the corrupt Empire might fall-and freedom be restored to the galaxy...
...that first pen. He walked over to pick it up, and saw out of the corner of his eye another pen, lying a few feet away. Picking up the second pen, he suddenly became aware that, through some bizarre biological mishap, a single Bic pen had reproduced itself a thousand times, throughout the library's reference room. Pens were stacked in piles on the shelves, magic-markers were falling out of wastebaskets, a bagfull of fine-points was spilled on the floor...
...stuck. Visions of a thousand Dick Van Dyke reruns dance through my head as I tried to appear casual, groping for the emergency phone that wasn't there. She said nothing all along, and I am convinced to this day that she never even knew that I was in the elevator with her. She existed on some distant ethereal plane of straight proud noses and beautiful smiles, neither of which I possess...