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Word: addictive (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Twenty-year-old Willie B. is a diehard TV addict. He hates news and talk shows, but he loves football and gets so excited over food commercials that he sometimes charges at the set, waving a fist. Says a friend: "He's like a little child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Prime-Time Primate | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

James Lawson, co-director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws for Massachussetts, said yesterday that this kind of research will ultimately lead to the decriminalization of marijuana by increasing public awareness that "marijuana is not mystical, will not turn you into a crazed addict, and is indeed good for treating such things as menstrual cramps, chemotherapy side-effects, and glaucoma...

Author: By Frank D. Chaiken, | Title: Clinic Seeks Medical Use Of Marijuana | 12/2/1978 | See Source »

...this week for her first appearance in Eliot House's Jimmy Fund benefit, An Evening With Champions. Since she left her home in Helsinki, Finland three years ago to begin intensive training in Denver, Colo, Tintti, as her friends call her, has lived the life of an ice skating addict...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: So You Want to Be a Star? | 12/1/1978 | See Source »

Only Stallone's mother will forgive him for Paradise Alley. The movie has all the flaws of Rocky--the truisms, the sentimentality that could make a soap-opera addict squirm--and none of its strengths. The innocence has been replaced by a blatant attempt to cash in on Rocky's success. Rocky has gone Hollywood...

Author: By Max Gould, | Title: Paradise Lost | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

...longtime Tolkien addict himself, Director Ralph Bakshi knew these dangers; he also knew that the task of translating this ring-cycle to the screen had stymied some of the most formidable names in Hollywood, including Walt Disney, and still he plunged ahead. Bakshi brought to this project none of the brass and sass that animated his earlier cartoon features including the X-rated Fritz the Cat and the jive-talking Heavy Traffic. If reverence had wings, his new picture would fly. The fact that it hobbles simply proves again that the road to Mordor is paved with good intentions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Frodo Moves | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

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