Word: worth
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...private displays of affection, homosexual or heterosexual. His disappointment with students' apparent willingness to quit their mates ignores the role women's liberation has played in changing the notion of marriage from a result of economic necessity to an instrument of a happier life. Isn't the latter worth waiting...
...offer big books on big subjects. Among others in the select group, most of whom tend to be, like Caro, journalist-scholars: Richard Kluger, author of the civil rights classic Simple Justice (1976), and J. Anthony Lukas, whose Common Ground (1985), a social history of ethnic Boston, was well worth the wait...
...American sportswear is strong, and the California influence is evident everywhere. Last summer many teens were captivated by the surfer look, with shirts and shorts in neon lime and fluorescent orange. The University of California, Los Angeles, through its own licensees in Japan, sells annually some $16 million worth of T shirts, warm-up suits and jackets, all bold with the authentic UCLA logo...
...Three sailors -- and $4 million worth of nonnuclear missiles -- on the U.S.S. Dwight D. Eisenhower were washed away by heavy seas near Cape Hatteras; only two of the men were recovered...
What shall we do tonight? TIME offers some answers to that increasingly confusing question in the Critics' Voices section at the front of the magazine. A forum for entertainment tips and mini-reviews of everything from books to brandy, the section provides a one-page guide to what is worth -- or not worth -- hearing, seeing and doing around the U.S. from week to week. Our critics raved about the program Night Music as "the best damn music show on television." But they warned watchers to skip the movie Wired in one terse comment: "The saddest thing about John Belushi...