Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Patriot-Poet Adam Mickiewicz's 19th century play Dziady, which included the line "The only things Moscow sends us are jackasses, idiots and spies." Writer Stefan Kisie-lewski, who was severely beaten in 1968 for calling the government "a dictatorship of dimwits," has been allowed under Gierek to travel abroad. Of the 939 books to be published this year, more than half are by contemporary authors, some of whom have not seen print in more than a decade...
...quite. Claes Oldenburg is at work, and an exhibition of his imaginary monsters, entitled Object into Monument, is now touring the U.S. After a first run at the Pasadena Art Museum in California, the show opens next week at the University Art Museum in Berkeley; through 1972 it will travel to Kansas City, Fort Worth, Des Moines and Chicago...
...hobbyists, Barbara is alternately breathy and brittle, cool and aggressive. Her technique is a model, to some observers, of what makes an interview great; to others, of what makes an interview grate. Recently Russian Poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko was so nonplussed by her political probing ("Why are you allowed to travel while many other Russian writers cannot?") that he later de scribed her off the air as "a hyena in syrup...
Teacher's Guide for SST-T-T (Sound, Sense, Today, Tomorrow, Thereafter), a 7 3-page booklet published by the Department of Transportation, contains suggested writing and research assignments and fables aimed at promoting supersonic travel. The booklet's cast of characters includes Marita the Supersonic Pussycat (the first feline to fly to Paris on the SST), Deci Belle (a "smooth chick with good looks" who "was attracted to noise -the louder the better"), and The House That Had to Move ("Now the airport has room to grow. More jets can do their job of helping people travel...
...largely from registration and other fees; they turn 10% over to the parent company. The parent company in addition distributes a bestselling Weight Watchers cookbook and publishes a Weight Watchers magazine (circ. 550,000) that is crammed not only with recipes for low-calorie meals but with fashion, travel and even astrological advice. For the past four years, the organization has licensed two food companies to market frozen dinners (fish, turkey, chicken and veal) and a line of low-calorie soft drinks and skimmed milk under the Weight Watchers label...