Word: waits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...album Hungry Years, Sedaka appears in clown face similar to the character Kelly created in 1921 and later copyrighted. "Weary Willie is my makeup and my face. It's an infringement," complained the clown, adding he may sue both Sedaka and Rocket Records. "I can't wait 'til Neil's mother hears about that," responded Rocket Attorney Barry Tyerman. "If anybody has a copyright on that face, she does...
...BEST parts of 1984 comes when Winston Smith talks about his country's history, how Big Brother is constantly changing who the country's allies are and how the war is progressing. The hero tells himself he can't decide what the history is, he'd better wait until the afternoon news broadcast to find out. Orwell's point in 1984, that a government can keep shifting the terms of its existence, not only historical but linguistic--in Newspeak euphemisms--is an important point and one often stressed by critics of the present U.S. government, who are, for the most...
...gain control of a Genoa shipping, insurance and newspaper group without informing the government. Next to go was Raffaele Girotti, chairman of ENI, who had led the big state petroleum company to a $95 million loss. Camillo Crociani, apparently recognizing that his job was shaky, chose not to wait...
...confidential weddings do not require proof of a blood test, some state officials are concerned about increases in the incidence of venereal disease and rubella during pregnancies. State Assemblyman Robert Burke of Huntington Beach introduced a bill last spring that would require a blood test and a three-day waiting period for all marriages, but the wedding chapels lobbied hard against the bill and killed it in committee. "Some of our customers may be frightened to death of needles," explains Steinmetz. Then, too, the tests would add to the cost of secret weddings, which usually run from...
Although they had not yet figured out exactly how much money the dance raised, Sturdy said yesterday, "None of us have time anymore this year, and we have no funds. We'll have to wait until next fall and talk about it then...