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Word: like (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Time, Alice and The Jeffersons are consistently near the top of the Nielsens. Trapper John, M.D., a dim hospital drama, is the season's biggest new hit, mainly because it caps CBS's winning Sunday lineup. CBS has shown other new signs of life: modestly successful shows like Dallas, WKRP in Cincinnati and The Dukes of Hazzard have started to build big audiences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sweeps Stakes | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

...wasn't a May and December marriage. More like March and April. Bridegroom Shaun Cassidy, who reached stardom early as teeny-bop's biggest rock idol and then moved smoothly into television acting on Sunday night's The Hardy Boys Mysteries, is 21. Bride Ann Pennington, a former Playboy Playmate who models in bouncy commercials for a Los Angeles men's clothing chain, is seven years older. But that gap mattered not to a romance that began 19 months ago when Cassidy spotted Pennington on the Hardy set. Nor to the groom's mother, Actress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 17, 1979 | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

...lots of scars and some wounds that will never heal. The music remains intact, inviolate. No other group has ever pushed rock so far, or asked so much from it. No other band has ever matched its sound, a particular combination of sonic onslaught and melodic delicacy that is like chamber music in the middle of a commando raid. No other group, in return, has ever had so much asked of it by an audience which takes it as an absolute article of faith that, every time out, The Who plays for mortal stakes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock's Outer Limits | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

...started," says Vocalist Roger Daltrey), are a large measure of its appeal and, ironically, the core of much of its strength. It is also the source for a good deal of discomfort and antagonism among those who take rock music casually, and especially among those who would like never to put up with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock's Outer Limits | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

...wife Alison have been married for twelve years, have one son, Christopher Alexander John, and spend most of their time in a house on the edge of London. They also own an establishment in Gloucestershire consisting of eight houses spread over 52 acres. Entwistle's songs, which are like nightshade valentines, show up on Who albums often as a kind of bleakly bemused counterpoint to Townshend's. He is also a skilled caricaturist and is now drawing A Cartoon History of The Who. In this work, Entwistle made up imaginary ancestors for each of the band members based on some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock's Outer Limits | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

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