Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With its laser machines, fights to the death and exotic homicides, Diamonds Are Forever is like a Looney Tune. A chaotic car chase through the streets of downtown Las Vegas is the funniest scene of its kind since Roadrunner last boinked the coyote...
...last week's meeting of the American Historical Association in Manhattan: "The era of uncritical mass accommodation to the motorcar has ended; for most Americans, automobility has become simply utilitarian and lost its quasi-religious connotations; most important, the automobile and the automobile industry no longer call the tune and set the tempo of American life." One major reason for this shift in attitudes, Flink thinks, is young Americans' sweeping indictment of the car for contributing to "environmental pollution, urban sprawl, the decay of the center city, the decimation of our remaining wilderness areas." He did not predict...
...shown that they meant business by shooting one passenger, the son of Nicaragua's Minister of Agriculture, in the arm and abdomen. They had released the other passengers, but were holding the crew members as hostages in the plane. Costa Rica's radio stations were able to tune in on the conversation between air crew and tower, so that the entire country could hear one stewardess pleading: "For the love of God, let us go to Cuba! Otherwise, they'll kill...
George Church, senior writer in our Business and Economy sections, committed some remarkable "economic carols." Jangled Dems, to the tune of Jingle Bells, starts off: "Democrats, Democrats, Why are you so blue? Nixon stole our policy, What ever shall we do-o?" Then there is Goodbye Gold (to the tune of Deck the Halls): "Flood the world with paper dollars, Fa la la la la, la la la la; Pay no mind to Frenchmen's hollers, Fa la la la la, la la la la." Other titles: God Rest Ye, Jackson Grayson and Should Milton Friedman Be Forgot...
Divorced. Tony Bennett, 45, nightclub and jukebox balladeer; by Mrs. Patricia Bennett, 39, a former model; on grounds of desertion; after 19 years of marriage, two children; in Hackensack, NJ. The singer, whose longtime pal, Sandy Grant, gave birth to their daughter last year, was hit to the tune of $92,500 a year in alimony and child support...