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Word: ticket (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well. People who bother to read books at all are usually not proud of the hours they spend staring straight ahead; a book about destroying the tube can be a nice assuager of guilt. And Mander, a former advertising and public relations agent who grew disenchanted with his meal ticket in the late 1960s, exhorts with all the zeal of the convert and enthusiasm of the initiate. He rattles on like a college freshman who has just been alerted to the difference between illusion and reality. In fact, Mander argues that TV created this difference: "Unlike ordinary life, in which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Inner Tube | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

...VACATION approaches once again, the prospect of traveling home via Amtrak looms large for many students from the Northeast Corridor. The federally-sponsored and seemingly always-bankrupt railroad has a unique sort of charm. If you like crowded, eternally late trains and continually climbing ticket prices, you'll love Amtrak. Every experienced Amtrak rider has had several brushes with destiny during the long rides to school and back. the railroad comes complete with a stock of weirdos, winos, and generally pitiful people, all of whom seem hellbent on telling you their life stories or annoying you as much as possible...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: Amtrak Blues | 3/14/1978 | See Source »

Leading the list of ballet offerings is Coppelia, one of the all-time classics about a life-like doll that mysteriously comes to life. The Boston Ballet performs it March 9-12 at the Music Hall in Boston; call 542-3945 for ticket info...

Author: By Susan D. Chira, | Title: One Gershwin and Two Sneakers | 3/9/1978 | See Source »

...while Tiegs and McGeary were in the model's silver Mercedes, an L.A. policeman pulled them over. Says Mc Geary: "The cop was startled when Photographer Walter Iooss, in a car right behind, leaped out and started snapping his Nikon. The poor cop was just doing his duty ticketing the lady with the expired license plates. And TIME happened to be there. Cheryl still got a ticket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Mar. 6, 1978 | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

...head coach of Fordham. Penders was recently interviewed for the past--but right now, all he's thinking about is tonight's impending imbroglio with Penn. As for McLaughlin: as the Harvard mentor said after watching his team lose to the Lions, "I wouldn't mind having a ticket for that game...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: The Line on the Lions | 3/3/1978 | See Source »

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