Word: better
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From Erick, Okla., over near the Texas border, Moore calls Norman. The lab reports that the storm clouds are "falling apart." Moore is unconvinced. He heads west again to get a better look at a cloud bank that seems to contradict the forecast. "Look at that thing!" Moore yells. "It's going up! Hell yes, it's going up!" He throws the pickup into a fast U-turn. He turns on the AM radio just in time to hear an unmistakable crackle. "If I didn't know better," Moore shouts, "I'd say that was lightning...
Said the American: "It better...
...this year's A.I.A. awards program for extended use: "We're a young country and we've been looking for a long time to find ourselves. Now we are just beginning to look at ourselves. When you appreciate where you've been, you have a better chance of deciding where it is you want...
...film does gently remind us of past pleasures, now missed, and it is rather handsomely produced. Maybe, since its creators lack a true-that is to say Mel Brooksian-gift for parody, they would have done better to play the whole thing straight and let us have our nostalgia unalloyed...
...Television could, if we let it, electronically consolidate all of our culture -theater, ballet, concerts, newspapers, magazines and possibly most conversation. It is a medium of eerie and disconcerting power; one college professor conducted a two-year study that asked children aged four to six: "Which do you like better, TV or Daddy?" Forty-four percent of the kids said that they preferred television...