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Word: watching (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wallace just can't deal with Carter the same way he bludgeoned poor Albert Brewer. Not only does he have to speak the sanitized language of the presidential campaign, he must as well watch Carter take a tip from Max Weber and take advantage of the routinization of his charisma, the routinization of his demagoguery...

Author: By Peter Kaplan, | Title: Governor Lonelyhearts | 3/9/1976 | See Source »

MOVEMENT. Glass-walled elevators, bedecked with lights, zip up and down-fun to watch and to ride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: Building Fantasies for Travelers | 3/8/1976 | See Source »

Doll Bilby is no ordinary Salem witch. As a child in Brittany she is forced to watch as her parents are burned at the stake for witchcraft. Later she is brought to the colonies by Sea Captain Jared Bilby, who is enchanted by her. In Massachusetts, Doll takes one look at Bilby's wife Hannah and is able to wither the fetus in her womb-or so Hannah later contends. At 19, Doll takes a lover named Shad, convinced he is a messenger from the King of Hell. Arrested as a witch, she dies in jail convinced not only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Houston's Doll | 3/8/1976 | See Source »

Radioactive Legacy. A major concern is nuclear wastes, one of which, plutonium, has a half-life of over 24,000 years. Safeguarding wastes alone, says Biologist Barry Commoner, would require the creation of a kind of permanent "nuclear priesthood," to watch over the radioactive legacy each generation of Americans handed down to its successors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Struggle over Nuclear Power | 3/8/1976 | See Source »

...actually pretty impressive, considering that part of the fun of HPT shows is supposed to be that everybody trips over clodhopper-style numbers. There's still too much bumbling, but Greg Minahan as Kitty shows that fast feet can add to the show. He dances up a good watch-me-and-then-you-can-do-it number with Mark Szpak (Henna), and together with Buddy (Bruce Cranston) they dance a nice soft shoe in a satirical love song, called "Easy to Please." Even the bumbling has been made into more interesting dance with Judith Haskell, who doubled as choreographer this...

Author: By Gregory F. Lawless, | Title: Guess You Had to Be There | 3/8/1976 | See Source »

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