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Word: thumb (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meeting a woman on a stroll, in one sequence, and in another, they imitate a ballet dancer roaming over hills. In both sequences it's an interesting idea that is executed well-but Groove Tube's leering humor makes the first sequence depend on the appearance of a thumb between one pair of finger-legs and upon the inevitable seduction, while in the other sequence the cleverness of the finger ballet yields to a punch-line based on the revelation that the hills on which the fingers dance are the contours of a woman's body. Without these glad-handing...

Author: By Bill Beckett, | Title: Underground Television Groove Tube At the Video Theater, 24 Brighton Avenue, Boston. | 3/5/1971 | See Source »

...thumb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Britain: Lament for a Lost Currency | 3/1/1971 | See Source »

...average dome in about eight hours. Costs are modest. Cadco of New York State offers a 39-foot diameter dome with 1,100 sq. ft. of living space for $4,900 (erected). Doors, windows, heating and foundation all add to the cost. Cadco's rule-of-thumb estimate of total cost is about $9.50 per square foot. Dynadome, of Phoenix, Ariz., sells its 40-foot dome in kit form...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Life in the Round | 3/1/1971 | See Source »

...trying to understand it; but it seems that I can't get it. So: the noted French wit Jean-Luc Godard said: "What is film? Film is Truth-twenty-four-times-a-second." So I thought that if I put it all down on film, and I put my thumb on it and I run it back and forth ... And I stop it when I want to, then I got everything. I get it all. I should get it all. Hah: I SHOULD get it all. I should get the meaning. I should understand it. So. This is what this...

Author: By Martin H. Kaplan, | Title: The Dull and the Zippy David Holzman's Diary at Lowell Dining Hall, 8 p.m. Saturday and Dunster Dining Hall, 8 p.m. Sunday | 2/19/1971 | See Source »

...series, according to industry rule of thumb, rise in cost between 8% and 10% a season. At the same time, they and their audiences often become more antique and less attractive to sponsors. That is why CBS last year dumped Petticoat Junction despite its relatively high ratings. Next season, with the networks limited to three nightly hours in prime time, there will be even less room for such granddaddy programs as CBS's Ed Sullivan Show (22 years old), NBC's The Red Skelton Show (19), ABC's Lawrence Welk Show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Pruning Old Friends | 2/15/1971 | See Source »

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