Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...become a commonplace that America has scarcely begun to conserve. Small, voluntary steps can add up to major savings. A driver can save about 5% of the gas he normally uses by keeping his tires properly inflated and another 10% by keeping his engine in tune. A householder can save 15% on his heating bill, and 7.5% on his air-conditioning bill, simply by keeping his storm windows on all year...
...trials and tribulations of the suburban theatergoer form the basis of one of the skits: the quest for the babysitter, the snarl of traffic, parking traumas, reservations that have evaporated, and the final securing of seats in an abysmal location. Each sequence is set to some theater tune; singing "I can't believe these seats" to the melody of I Could Have Danced All Night doubles...
Richard Tuggle, a first-tune screen writer, has based his script on the real-life exploits of Frank Morris, a convict who fled Alcatraz with two buddies in 1962 and was never heard from again...
Lawrence Durrell has written a duet of novels (Tune and Nunquam) and The Alexandria Quartet. Now he is literally trying to go himself one better. Livia is a mirror image and extension of Monsieur (1975), and Durrell has promised that three more novels in this series will follow...
MARRIED. Maria Isabella Niarchos, 20, daughter of the Greek shipping Croesus Stavros Niarchos and a staffer at the French edition of Vogue; and Alix Chevassus, 36, heir to a French chemical fortune; both for the first tune; in Paris...