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Word: yorke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Newbury Street is Boston's answer to New York's Fifth Avenue, Rome's Via Veneto, and Paris' Champs Elysees. Running through the Back Bay section of the city, Newbury Street is posh, elegant, sleek, and luxurious. It's here that you'll find furs from Kakas, diamonds from Shreves, and shoes from Gucci...

Author: By Nancy A. Tentindo, | Title: Chez Chic | 3/15/1979 | See Source »

...accidents in the Nuclear Regulatory Commission files, and the film also contains an incident reminiscent of the death of Karen Silk wood, an employee of a nuclear equipment manufacturing plant who was killed in an auto accident while she was driving to meet a union official and a New York Times reporter...

Author: By David B. Hilder, | Title: 'China Syndrome': A Nuclear Thriller Fonda, Lemmon and Douglas Star | 3/15/1979 | See Source »

...novel that inspires book critics to nothing but rave reviews is a rare bird. Birdy has already been hailed as a modern classic. The Village Voice called Birdy, published in January, the novel of the year. The New York Times used adjectives like "enchanting" and "electrifying...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: A Novel That Soars | 3/13/1979 | See Source »

...first thing one hears is the cry of birds. A solitary figure shuffles in like a molting heron wearing steel-rimmed spectacles. He is Norman Thayer Jr. (Tom Aldredge), hater of the New York Yankees, high dental fees and, most of all, the thought of turning 80. For 48 years, Norman and his wife Ethel (Frances Sternhagen) have summered at their Maine cottage on Golden Pond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Sassy Stoic | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

...literary periodicals recalled in this lively chronicle range from Partisan Review, left-wing and loudly ideological at its birth in 1934, to Paris Review, a sleek '50s expatriate now based in New York. An entry on John Crowe Ransom reports that the poet started the Kenyon Review because he thought Partisan Review too flashy. Robert Creeley, founder of the Black Mountain Review, says that "to be published in the Kenyan Review was too much like being 'tapped' for a fraternity." United only in their dislike of New York publishing and each other, the little magazines were starting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Notable | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

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