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Word: vies (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Manhattan newsstands are so crowded with displays of Call Girl, Gay Party, Ball and Desire that it is sometimes the New York Times that is sold under the counter. The situation is similar in many big cities. Detroit newsstands even have dildos and whips for sale, bestselling books vie with each other in sexual explicitness and vulgarity and there are no off limits at all in the theater. Around Times Square, exhibitions of simulated intercourse can be seen afternoons and evenings for $5 and up. Skin flicks and their ilk, which used to be limited to a few hundred city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: PORNOGRAPHY REVISITED: WHERE TO DRAW THE LINE | 4/5/1971 | See Source »

Watson and Steele will probably compete in the Eastern Alpine Championships on the weekends of March 20 and March 27, while Rikert and Compton will vie for the Eastern cross country title...

Author: By R. W. D., | Title: Four Skiers to Continue In Individual Competition | 3/4/1971 | See Source »

...brain, Brian Bedford is a comic marvel. His face is an ever-changing panorama of unholy glee, bottomless despair, and a sour-pickle sneer. With an unbroken, intuitive authority, he leads the way to the vital intersection of Molière's genius, the place where la vie tragique meets la vie triviale. The ultimate humanity of Molière is that he can make an audience laugh at a man's folly, then make the audience feel how that foolish man suffers, and finally make us all realize just who that suffering fool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Laughing Cure | 3/1/1971 | See Source »

...course of the one-act play, five people converge on THE LINE, a six-inch strip of tape, and vie to be first. It doesn't matter why they have come. Fleming wants to buy baseball tickets. Arnall thinks he is going to see a movie. But only Steve, excellently played by Richard A. Green, knows that there isn't really a reason...

Author: By Ann L. Derrickson, | Title: Theatre Line at the Loeb Ex, yesterday | 11/23/1970 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 19, 1970 | 10/19/1970 | See Source »

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