Word: dinosaur
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appreciate the obstacles ahead for our new energy boss. The idea of energy conservation for many people is leaving the lights off at home and taking the dinosaur in the driveway out for a 70-m.p.h. spin on the freeway...
...went into two decades of neglect. Restored to critical approval and public favor in the mid-'50s, he began to mount an Everest of esteem which most of his plays cannot remotely scale. What is wrong with Anna Christie? Just about everything. With the daintiness of a dinosaur, the play, first produced in 1921, wallows in the goo of sentimentality, quavers with the palsy of moral priggishness, and resolves itself in a bogus happy ending that, at its best, releases the playgoer from Broadway's Imperial Theater...
Under the plan, Detroit's beloved dinosaur, thumping its chrome-plated tail, is doomed for the swamps of extinction. The new plan will impose an excise tax on the purchase of large cars. Under consideration as a fallback plan is a gasoline tax, beginning with 5? per gal. and rising at regular intervals to 50? or $1 in order to discourage Americans from buying big gas-guzzling autos. According to the Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975, which the new Administration is embracing, each manufacturer by 1980 must produce a line of cars that achieve an average...
...reference to American mediation, Hoffman said, "Everybody knows that the American eagle moves with the speed of a dinosaur after a change in administration...
...DANCER-FRIEND of mine overheard choreographer Beth Soll remark, as she tacked up posters announcing her January concert "Clear-field," that it was about time she considered doing a more accessible piece. Funny that another Boston dance company recently has made just that decision. New England Dinosaur, which last spring gave a concert of five wonderfully inaccessible dances last month presented "The Tree of Life," the sort of piece suited for lecture demonstrations in high school gyms on "modern dance...