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Word: bickering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Erik Estrada stars as a motorcycle cop named Poncherello ("Ponch" to friends) who bears an all too obvious resemblance to both Baretta and the Fonz. For an hour, he and his partner (Larry Wilcox) ride the Los Angeles freeways arresting or aiding motorists. Occasionally they take a break to bicker with their strident commanding sergeant (Robert Pine) or flirt with pretty girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Viewpoint: Lou, Carter, CHiPS | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

...other remaining Pacific possession, declared that Lisbon's troops would not "open fire against the people of Timor no matter what the outcome of the current crisis." Similarly, Indonesia announced a policy of noninterference. The main danger seemed to be that the three independence parties would begin to bicker among themselves, à la Angola...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PORTUGAL: The Anti-Communists Strike Back | 8/25/1975 | See Source »

...women, one from the organizing committee, the other from a group marching, bicker over whether to go up Commonwealth Avenue or Boylston Street, A police permit has been issued for Commonwealth, a pleasant tree-shaded avenue lined with grimy brick apartments, but not for Boylston,' which cuts through one of Boston's more affluent shopping districts. Later the Globe said that shopkeepers had complained to the Mayor that the march would disrupt their business. The two ladies, one short with short brown hair, the other taller in a long brown coat and with an ugly motley-skinned face, engage...

Author: By Edmond P.V. Horsey, | Title: Under A Glumping Sky | 2/4/1975 | See Source »

...etched humiliation on their souls. Faced with her husband's latest infidelity, Chloe decides to spend a day in London visiting Marjorie and Grace. They too are in their early 40s, their pasts a stream of errors. Grace has become a shrill hoyden, Marjorie an asexual careerist. They bicker and discuss each other's failings with a cool dispassion usually reserved for inanimate objects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Among the Ruins | 10/28/1974 | See Source »

...director's autobiography. Scorsese portrays his parents not only through their own reminiscences about growing up and marrying on New York's Lower East Side but through their relationships with him and with each other, as they talk about a recent trip to Italy, argue or bicker or tease. Scorsese even defies that eternal cliche of Italian-American life by showing his mother cooking meat balls and tomato sauce. At film's end, in gleeful tribute, he includes the recipe in the credits. Italianamerican has a kind of impulsive immediacy and is rich in the sort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Pictures at an Exhibition | 10/14/1974 | See Source »

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