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Word: entertainment (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...casting and characterization quickly break the spell. Brecht's script speaks directly enough, and Weill's music is brilliant enough, so that even a mediocre performance like Caravan's is worth seeing, especially if you've never seen the show before. But The Threepenny Opera ought to more than entertain; if the director, actors and musicians conspire aright, it can give you a whiff of death...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Threepennys Worth--Barely | 10/28/1978 | See Source »

...antinuclear arguments, however, are emotional. Many reasonable people entertain reasonable doubts about nuclear power. Their main arguments concern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Irrational Fight Against Nuclear Power | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

...party for members of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, some of whom rolled up to the "diplomatic entrance" in their Day-Glo colored "stockers." Alas, Jimmy couldn't get away from his Israeli and Egyptian guests at Camp David, and Rosalynn was left to entertain the down-home folks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 25, 1978 | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

...White House has never seen any thing to beat it. Where the powerful and the privileged usually dine, a buffet is laid on for members of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing. Where Casals once played, the entertain ment is a sort of tribal rite in which the guests whoop it up to a Texas honky-tonk beat. The placid evening air is pierced by a singer's plangent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Country's Platinum Outlaw | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

...Milwaukee Brewers plan to give the Sox as much misery as they can this weekend, when they entertain Zim's steely crew out in the city that made beer famous. The Brewers are the principal beneficiaries of the home-towner's El Foldo act, and could pull within a half-game of first place if they sweep the three-game set. Watch for Cecil Cooper, erstwhile Bosox first-baseman who went out to Diaryland in the infamous George "Two-Outs-for-the-Price-of-One" Scott trade, to do some heavy-duty slugging, making the Sox management wish they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPORTS | 8/4/1978 | See Source »

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