Word: twos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...life is still "many years away," as Gould concedes, and there is much skepticism in the academic world that one will ever appear. Yet the life-cycle researchers are confident that the threatening 30s and the mellowing 50s will some day become as universally accepted as, say, the terrible twos and the noisy nines of childhood...
...prevent the mind's eye from leaping to that comparison. Avedon, who spent seven weeks in Viet Nam taking pictures, caught the men who were directing U.S. policy there at a staff meeting. He stood them up against a sheet of white paper and snapped them in twos and threes. Avedon never bothered to have the photo published, but a number of journalists knew of its existence. Among them was Charlotte Curtis, editor of the New York...
MONTY PYTHON'S NEW album has three Side Twos and that's a hint that it's not one of their masterpieces. They advertise it as a "free record" you get for buying a "matching tie and handkerchief," which turns out to be a large piece of colored paper with a picture of what looks like John Mitchell strangled in his own tie. That's another hint...
...Monty Python's usual standards, the packaging is even better than the cover of the first album--which was an actual jacket for Beethoven's Seventh with the Brueghel print scratched out in black crayon and "Monty Python" scrawled across it. There really are two Side Twos on the second side of this new album, and you have to drop your needle down a few times at random to discover them. Once you've figured this out, though, the thrill is gone forever...
...last year, and reported crime dropped by 30%. At Berkeley, crime plummeted after officials improved campus lighting, hired additional police and sent students a memorandum warning: "Don't hitchhike ... Female students are encouraged to carry a shrill whistle ... Don't go alone at night-traveling in twos is better, in a group best." Thus the best way to avoid becoming a campus crime victim is to adopt strategies that have become all too familiar to residents of large cities...