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Word: worth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hundred years ago against the chilling wind, are being torn out, because machinery these days needs more room just to turn around. The wind sweeps down, carrying off the topsoil, buffeting the farmer who can, thanks to progress, plant 300 acres in two days all alone with $100,000 worth of machinery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Illinois: Cigars and Bottled History | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

...decision you have to make is whether or not the film is worth seeing. For nostalgia's sake, it is a worthwhile experience. Young children will not appreciate the glib intellectualisms of the film at all. They should not be dragged to The Motion Picture with the expectation that this is another Star Wars. In fact, no one should see Star Trek with the notion that it is similar to Star Wars or that it was even meant...

Author: By Joshua I. Goldhaber, | Title: Not Very Enterprising | 12/14/1979 | See Source »

This is the first play by Kentuckian Marsha Norman but it is worth a trip to the Theater de Lys on Christopher St. to see how she has combined these lives into one soul. Dale Soules plays Arlene, a wiry woman locking out her past, anxious to deal with the daily pain of life in the real world without resorting to crime, without ugly language, without her old self--Arlie. Simultaneously, Julie Nesbitt carries on as Arlie, Arlene's violent past personified in this small but gutsy, foul-mouthed girl who hates authority and only loves for cash...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: At Loose Ends? Get Out | 12/12/1979 | See Source »

...limitations of the Woody Allen persona, and the possibility that Mariel Hemingway stands for something different and better, that he ought to move himself to see her. He's always had an inviolable thin honesty, and it suggests that what he may go on to do (which is well worth doing), is to expose the sorry evasive figure who was so welcomingly forgiven in the seventies...

Author: By Peter Swaab, | Title: Academia Meets The Loser | 12/11/1979 | See Source »

Robert Howard, a biologist at the Marine Biological Labs at Woods Hole, said the Department of the Interior doesn't understand that the fisheries are worth far more than the oil under George's Bank. "If developed and drilled all at one time, the oil from the bank would support the U.S. for only five to eight days," he said...

Author: By Wendy L. Wall, | Title: Groups Call for Precautions Before Sale of Drilling Rights | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

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