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Word: watch (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crude landing strip, the party split up as its leaders tried to decide how to get everyone in the Otter and a smaller five-passenger Cessna brought in to help take the defectors out. A slim youth boarded the Cessna. "Watch him," one of the defectors warned Ryan. The Congressman, the newsmen and most of the fleeing cultists prepared to get into the larger craft. Then a tractor pulling a long trailer approached the field. The three men standing in the trailer did not appear to be armed, but the departing cultists were terrified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nightmare in Jonestown | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

Claybrook's appointment to NHTSA was greeted with cries of "Astounding!" and "Appalling!" from automakers in Detroit, where she was known as the "Dragon Lady." Her past days as a lower-level Government aide and then as Nader's chief lobbyist and director of his Congress Watch had shown her to be extremely zealous on auto safety. Foreman, who headed the Consumer Federation of America, provoked outcries from farm commodity producers when she became Assistant Agriculture Secretary. Each woman continues to be criticized, but now by Nader as well. He has charged that Claybrook is "a disaster" and that Foreman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Cool Carol and the Dragon Lady | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

...stay a while, linger and watch her eyes with more than the usual purient interest, maybe you can see her soften...

Author: By David Beach, | Title: images of a hard sell | 11/28/1978 | See Source »

...where is there greater evil than in Metropolis, the image of Manhattan right down to the grit on the sidewalks? Clark Kent (Christopher Reeve) lands a job on the Daily Planet, where he can keep a watch on crime and corruption, and then, with cape on and horn-rimmed glasses off, swoop down on crooks everywhere. The city is agog, and Planet Reporter Lois Lane is assigned to find out all about the flying miracle worker. As played by Margot Kidder, Lois is not the starchy spinster of the comics and the TV serial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Here Comes Superman!!! | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

...watch Paradise Alley, with its tried and contrived plot and its painfully obvious and ineffective attempt to manipulate the audience's emotions, you realize that Stallone simply lacks the intelligence to make a good movie. He cannot penetrate beyond cliches...

Author: By Max Gould, | Title: Paradise Lost | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

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