| 单词 | seventy |
| 例句 | On the night of Monday, March 15, as seventy million Americans watched on television, the president made his case before a joint session of Congress. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Her mother told her not to worry and launched into a diatribe about the medical technologies of the seventies until Alma interrupted her. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z It’s no surprise that Luce’s theory of gender identity was popular in the early seventies. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I had to stop myself then, and remember that Jennifer had a seventy percent crush on him. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z They told him to use his judgment on strategy, but to give Seabiscuit two swats with his whip, once at the top of the stretch and once seventy yards from the wire. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The cave is large enough to hold as many as seventy elephants at a time. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They set out together, Nat Turner and his six followers, and at every plantation where they stopped, other slaves joined them, until there were seventy of them altogether. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z If I had to spend seventy hours a week somewhere, my office was a pleasant enough place. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z There must have been sixty, maybe seventy of them. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z One is that the battle was waged for more than seventy years. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z It took another seventy cards for the conscious brain to finally figure out what was going on. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The weather was crazy for November 4, low seventies, dry, breezy, no clouds. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z Somehow my dad's seventies sideburns and bushy 'stache didn't deter my mom from wanting to reproduce with him. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z In 1956, he presented seventy of these children for the Standard VI exams; all but three passed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She was about seventy, a tiny, aristocratic- looking woman. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z We'd see sixty, seventy soldiers in a row, Frenchmen, in horizon blue uniforms, all with eyes bandaged, walking with their hands touching the shoulder of the guy in front for direction. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z The first was a road movie from the early seventies, about a man who leaves his wife to drive cross-country. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z My mother was seventy- one, but she still walked briskly along, her small body straight and purposeful, carrying a colorful flowery plastic bag. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “All right, but make sure you’re listening out for your events— the seventy meters is coming up.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z He would then have no more than seventy seconds to eject from the plane before it was blown to pieces. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The Master had been a powerful man, but he was well over seventy now, and his movements were stiff and slow. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “I love vintage shopping with you, Dill. You have the body of a seventies rock star. Everything looks good on you.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z “My father is starting a new business. He works seventy hours a week. Sometimes more.” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z “And come summer, we were so uncomfortable. In high school—this was in the late seventies—some of us went without underwear, just to stay cool. Knee socks with no underwear!” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z She has saved her dead parents’ letters on the top shelf of her closet, in a large white purse she used to carry in the seventies until the strap broke. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I remember someone at the masjid telling me there'd be seventy heavenly companions waiting.... City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Toward the end of our conversation, Hsu mentioned that she could learn much more from testing the family’s blood today, since DNA technology had advanced so much since the seventies. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z I spread and closed my fingers ten times and said, “Nope. Look. Ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety, one hundred.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z She’s as old as my grandma, maybe seventy, though there’s something youthful about her, too. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z “Did you know that seventy percent of men aren’t as attached to their female children as they are to their sons? It’s true. I read that somewhere.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z As I watch Auntie An-mei, I see a short bent woman in her seventies, with a heavy bosom and thin, shapeless legs. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Over seventy million cubic meters of rubble left over from the war still marred the city's landscape. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “At least one new family has built a hedge to avoid people seeing them as they pass by,” said Wade Green, seventy- two, who has summered here for years. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z "All those over seventy put up your hands!" she barked suddenly. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z It’s a tiny, cluttered one-bedroom affair furnished by the Salvation Army and done up in late seventies graduate student decor. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He was dressed like he was stuck in the seventies, with a three-piece chocolate-brown suit and a wide yellow tie. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z He’d retired by then—he was seventy- two—but he did odd jobs and worked on heating systems with his brother Walter. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z For a little while during the seventies it seemed that sexual difference might pass away. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z On September 13, seventy top cancer researchers from around the world would gather to present their research, he said, and hundreds of people would attend, including the mayor of Washington, D.C., and the surgeon general. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z I having little strength in calculation at that age, Dr. 09-01 led me through the steps to a solution, which was some one hundred and seventy thousand miles. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He turned the radio on and hummed to old songs from the seventies, snapping his fingers, and sometimes even singing some of the words. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Even after more than seventy years they have not been fully appreciated by many philosophers, and are still the subject of much controversy. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “About a hundred and seventy thousand dollars,” Benji said, not looking up from the menu. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z Most were last remodeled in the seventies and have the colors of suburban kitchens from my childhood: avocado, cinnamon, sunflower yellow. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I counted over seventy cars at the Pinkham Notch Visitor Center lot at 8:10 in the morning when we arrived, and more pouring in every minute. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Patrini, the owner, told us that the house was seventy years old. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “When I lived here in the seventies, it was all the rage: You’d audition for Michael Bennett and you couldn’t even get through the door without them practically throwing boiling water at you.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z The clinic’s seventy community health workers, who lived among the peasant farmers and had until recently been peasant farmers themselves, spoke often about the economic obstacles to treatment. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z A retrial was requested, but Ray, seventy, died of liver failure on April 23, 1998, before the new trial could take place.5 After King’s assassination, I worried that the Civil Rights dream might end. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z They were traveling now at seventy miles per hour. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z No, make that seventy just to be safe. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z When they got closer, they saw a couple, a husband and wife in their seventies, leaning out of the window. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The only real problem is that her love of poetry seems to have stopped accumulating in the seventies. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z Eventually I tracked down a few magazine articles about her from the seventies. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Kira again remembered the seventy she had heard in Jamison’s voice. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She would make seventy cookies with the almonds three times a week, plus one large cookie for herself and Akira to share. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z People get seventy years, a bean plant gets four months, maybe five. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Professor Steinberg was in his seventies but I would not have described him as an old man. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z If I guarded him, he was going to score seventy points. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z On the first Friday in December the ninth edition of The Landry News was distributed—over three hundred and seventy copies. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z More than seventy men there were, with two trumpeters and a band of grenadiers. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Fleming, seventy- one, a former mayor of Garden City, a short man who enlivens an unsensational appearance with rather conspicuous neckwear, resisted the assignment. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Like the fact that a cheetah can run seventy miles per hour. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z She appeared to be somewhere in that range between forty and seventy years, when it becomes difficult to precisely ascertain a black persons precise age. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z She was in her seventies, a large woman, over two hundred pounds. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z You know that place Studio 54 from back in the seventies? When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z The one who remained was in his seventies, but tall and bull necked and powerful. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z White students in the seventies frequently complained to me about affirmative action. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The thermometer was hovering just under seventy, and the sun was glinting off the Cut just as it had that day a year before. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Eventually one of the other sons had cm her head off in a storm of jealousy, on discovering her in bed at the age of seventy with a young man called Sir Lamraak. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time we crossed over into the valley of the seventies, Lefty was back in the fifties. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z But the Tucker family had been on this block in the Lower Nine for seventy years. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z Even opened for a few big names in the early seventies. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z X-Ray sold four more tickets to a couple of high school students from Westlake, and just like that, Armpit had another two hundred and seventy dollars. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z “You ain’t taking my car every day, woman, what if I get the day shift and need to—” “She paying me seventy dollars cash every Friday, Leroy.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z But I needed him for at least fifty, maybe seventy, and that meant patience. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She had never been to a Broadway show, or even to New York, which is but seventy miles north, an hour by train from Levittown. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z The new linguistic skills that modern Sapiens acquired about seventy millennia ago enabled them to gossip for hours on end. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I counted ten black tiles, and I knew the answer: seventy tiles on the platform. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z When she found him, he always hugged her tight, smelling, as she would remember seventy years later on her deathbed, of wet wood and sweat and the sweet wildness of the outdoors. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z What’s happening today with technology, he argues, is comparable to what happened in the seventies with drugs. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z I count the windows as we emerge from underground: seven windows times two sides times five-car train is seventy windows. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z Dad lost a cousin in a drunk-driving accident in the fifties or seventies or whatever, and there is a zero-tolerance rule in our house. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z There was a huge digital clock on the wall of the dining hall, bought sometime in the seventies as the latest in technology and never replaced, even though it was older than Conor’s mum. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z “Then it was a mental hospital for a hot second in the seventies, then a crack house. Now it’s abandoned. City doesn’t know what to do with the property, I guess.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z “Music in the fifties was good. Much better than the sixties, or the seventies, ugh!” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z A family yarn told of the time that he demanded to visit a cousin in Sioux City, Iowa, seventy miles from home, on his own. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The state of Texas was soon to toughen its test requirements, and Fort Worth was in danger of having as many as seventy schools classified as failing. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Chinese doing computer drawings for Japanese homes, nearly seventy years after a rapacious Japanese army occupied China, razing many homes in the process. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z When Liza was about seventy her elimination slowed up and her doctor told her to take a tablespoon of port wine for medicine. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z As midday rolled past, seventy thousand fans spilled out of the hotels and special trains and poured into the track. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “So she was seventy when you were born. I bet she was thinking, ‘Holy cow pie. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Levin, at one point, went into a seventh-grade music class with seventy kids in it and asked for a show of hands on when the students woke up. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z I would just nonchalantly say that I was trying to “bring the seventies back.” The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z It was the Williamses, a couple in their seventies. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z This little Hot Stuff, she must compete with a most heavenly bonsai tree with seventy years of age. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z Captain Newport has brought us seventy new colonists, stores, and the news that the rocks we sent to England were, once again, just rocks. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Blake Grunwald’s parents’ home was what real estate agents in California called seventies ranch style—which meant it was long and narrow, dark on the interior, and built on one level. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z For more than seventy years, I haven’t had nothing like it. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Nineteen sixty-five,” he read, “nineteen sixty-seven, nineteen seventy-one, nineteen seventy. None of them say nineteen seventy-six.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z It is an army of seventy thousand men. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s been out of stasis...“Over seventy years?” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The second woman is older, perhaps sixty or seventy. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Neither of them could tip the scale at seventy pounds soaking wet. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z There had been enough distance from the hostage crisis of the seventies, and the Gulf War of the early nineties. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z “Christ, Lillian. I go five hundred knots in a jet practically every day of my life and you get nervous when I go seventy.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a beautiful night in Lubbock, windless, in the seventies. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He opened it, then took out two hundred and seventy dollars, which he gave to X-Ray, along with his sandwich. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z On Saturday, March 6, the day before the march, tensions in Selma escalated when a group of seventy sympathetic whites from across the state held a rally of their own to support black voting rights. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z When he learns I know almost nothing about Minnesota he tells me all about it—how it became a state just over seventy years ago and is now the twelfth largest in the United States. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Trees begin producing fruit after three to five years and can continue for another seventy years. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Space was an anesthetic; seventy million miles of space numbed you, put memory to sleep, depopulated Earth, erased the past, and allowed these people here to go on with their work. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z "Fifteen! For the prop of my old age and the delight of my eyes! Do not mock my grey beard, Tarkaan though you be. My price is seventy." The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z He’s done seventy miles in the past six days, killing five rattlers along the way. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z They were both, technically, about seventy years older than he was. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Everybody’s already here, seven family friends in their sixties and seventies. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The temperature had climbed into the high seventies, unusually warm for an October afternoon in Seattle, and some of the new boys had taken off their shirts to soak up the sun. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I quickly did the mental math; the cross was over three hundred and seventy years old. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Temperatures promised to climb into the low seventies by race time. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Ella took me into the car, and we rode the seventy miles to Kalamazoo. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z He remembers when his paternal grandfather died, sometime in the seventies, remembers his mother screaming when she walked in on his father, who was shaving off all his hair with a disposable razor. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z But when I open my mouth, all that comes out is “What happens when they’re seventy?” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z I turned around; an older man, probably in his sixties or seventies, approached the truck with a concerned smile. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z In the part of Africa where he had lived all his life, the temperature rarely dropped below seventy degrees. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Now the Mount Elgon herd has withered to one extended family of about seventy elephants. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z That was a bornb that went off in the middle of a big train station in London the day after Aunt Penn went to Oslo and something like seven or seventy thousand people got killed. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, Ray’s too big to technically be a lapdog, at least seventy pounds, but that doesn’t stop him from trying. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z It all added up to seventy or eighty dollars. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z There are about seventy thousand accounting grads in India each year, he added, many of whom go to work for local Indian firms starting at $100 a month. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z He eventually moved his family from Tehran to Saratoga, California, in the seventies, and we moved in with them when we arrived in America. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Brullo shouted something at the other nineteen remaining Champions scaling the castle walls, but from seventy feet up, the wind carried his words away. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Johnny had a black eye, a lame shoulder, a tom shirt, a bite in his wrist—that was the butcher’s wife’s mother; she had good teeth for seventy. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It's true that Mags can’t weigh more than about seventy pounds, but I’m not very big myself. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Below, the mountain dropped away into a snow- filled gorge about seventy feet below. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Two hundred and forty-eight, two hundred and sixty, two hundred and seventy dollars. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z But now, at seventy, the strain of having no one to care for but herself aged her overnight. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z It was probably best to assume the worst, at least seventy miles. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Even though she was seventy years old and only 5’2”, Gran looked towering in the foyer. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z It was amazing what a mess seventy chickens could make in just one day. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He stood five feet eight and was said to weigh over a hundred and seventy pounds. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d retired by then—he was seventy- two—but he did odd jobs and worked on heating systems with his brother Walter. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “I am almost seventy years old,” said the father, “and haven’t taken a second wife, and don’t plan to now.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z On one day, more than seventy copters and light aircraft circled the summit. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z There were album covers, Joe Cuba’s congas, guitar picks, ticket stubs, all from salsa’s golden days in the sixties and seventies. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z Hand-drawn boxes circle the center of the board and hold brilliantly colored numbers, one through seventy. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z “In the song. He says he’ll love this girl until they’re seventy. But then what? He’s just like, peace, I’m out?” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z Out on the lawn, Bunny had just knocked Henry’s ball about seventy feet outside the court. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I put the car in D and press it to seventy, praying, Please, Hilly, resist the temptation to rummage through my personal business “So what’s the big secret, what do you have to do today?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Seriously, that woman needs to see someone about her seventies problem. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The crowd is big, maybe seventy people, and the soldiers march them down the middle of the street. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z To hear an eighty-year-old talk about how he had been affected by this woman seventy years ago was amazing. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The average human heart beats seventy times a minute. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Simon is around seventy and has had at least one heart attack. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Depending on the wind, a faint echo of massive artillery could be heard occasionally across the mountains near Sarajevo seventy miles to the north. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z We are, however, in Georgia, a state I love and adore for this reason and this reason only: the speed limit here is seventy, which means I can up my speed to seventy-seven. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z There are a thousand metaphors and all of them are inadequate: forty bombs per aircraft, four hundred and eighty altogether, seventy- two thousand pounds of explosives. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “I go to Kobe three time on train. I had cousin there, but he die when he seventy. So I understand train. We wait, and train will come when it come.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Although he was still, of course, a professional of the highest class, he was now in his seventies and much ravaged by arthritis and other ailments. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z “The math gives everyone seventy percent of a bottle.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z “I’m seventy now and didn’t have too much to look forward to,” he told them. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z I cannot say now whether I was more comfortable on the campus of the sixties or the campus of the seventies. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z But her own children say Enrique has to go: she is seventy, and he will bury her, all right, by sending her to the grave. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The British were driven from Malaya and into surrender in Singapore in seventy days. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z “Sometimes I look out there, and I can’t believe it. Ocean water makes up seventy percent of the earth’s surface, you know.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z “Yes, his work got a little strange in the seventies.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Amid the ethnic kitsch, there were still a few authentic coffee houses, patronized by old men in their seventies and eighties. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He was seventy years old, but had the body and spirit of a man half that age. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “They saw that before you knew it even existed. So did seventy thousand other people.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Of the seventy crewmen of the ship some were like Ged very young in years, though all had made their passage into manhood. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Hairwoman tells us they canceled school for a whole week back in the seventies because of the energy crisis. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z The number may, however, be estimated at from twenty to fifty, seventy, eighty, ninety, or an hundred and more. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And with him will come about seventy thousand men. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “This was the seventies. Lots of turmoil. Civil rights activism, yes. But lots of pushback.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z He was a man of between sixty and seventy. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why get divorced now after seventy years of marriage? Why not last it out? Why now?” Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, seventy miles outside the city, an hour and fifteen minutes into the heart of the journey, the rosary ended and Colonel Meecham asked rhetorically and unspecifically, “Who’s on duty first?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z They had seventy- five cents between them when Hagar declared her needs, and six dollars owed to them from customers. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The smoke filled the room, commingling with the warm scent of the river that spilled into the marsh seventy yards from their window. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Distances of seventy- five light-years or less are very small compared to other distances in astronomy. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I used the memory technique she had learned from a college professor who’d passed through Garland in the early seventies. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z I went from one hundred and seventy pounds to a hundred and forty-six, and I set out to put back on every pound right then and there. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Bando said the temperature has been in the eighties by day and seventies by night. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Over the past seventy- five years, they’ve learned to be self-sufficient, turned their citizens into an army, and built a new society with no help from anyone. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z It took only about seventy paces for Kendra to walk around the edge of it. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z An Osage man in his seventies with expressive gray eyebrows and a deliberate manner, he served as the chief trial court judge. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He described how my mother was working overtime trying to care for Robbie, who was now in her seventies, widowed, and struggling with an array of health issues. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z With seventy yards to go, Richardson abruptly released the saddlecloth and grabbed Woolf’s whip hand. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The weight of their gazes makes it hard to breathe as I finally admit, “I got a seventy.” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z At that time, lawn bowls was seen as a sport for older people, and all the volunteers that day were in their sixties and seventies. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Said one former classmate of him with dreamy reverence as he remembered Joe Bob’s place and time in high school in the early seventies, “You couldn’t touch ’im.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The Captain had to be seventy or more. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Men in their forties, fifties, sixties, and seventies all took off their hats and headed inside—and so did I. We ate cucumber sandwiches and drank cups of tea. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z “Many of the other men have seventy missions,” Milo pointed out. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z I was sure at any moment they were going to smoke us out and figure we were rabble, living on top of one another in a seventies junkbox down below. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The entrance of the cave sat about seventy feet down the cliff face - a circle of black in the chalky yellow rock like the hole of a giant pencil sharpener. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Just imagine, so much courage for such an old man—he must be at least seventy! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z The voice on the radio droned on: “February twenty- first—one hundred and forty-one. February twenty-second—seventy- four. February twenty-third—two hundred and six.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z In late 1998, a few months before Shin was assigned to the pig farm, the World Food Program conducted a nutrition survey of children, which covered seventy percent of North Korea. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z At seventy Mississippi he gave up and began to feel panicky again. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Over seventy more arrived in January and February 1918, with the last few coming in March and April. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “What kind of lady he gonna get for seventy- five cents?” the tall guy asked. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z “Over and over, though our experience of it is continuous. Otherwise we would have no memory of the last, oh, seventy years that we’ve resided here.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z My father was pushing seventy by that point, and I was so afraid I’d forgotten what he looked like. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z He was over seventy years old but still rode the ring under his big white hat trimmed in silver. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “It is almost seventy years old and preserved in spirits of wine. I am afraid it will disintegrate if we remove it.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z What will be left of them when I’m seventy? Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z At four o’clock in the morning he decided on seventy dollars a ticket. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z There were just seventy thousand Americans left in Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z ‘They did. Seven hundred against seventy. It wasn’t a battle. It was .. .just target practice ... for them. Some of our men were killed and the British huzzaed and took the road to Concord.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Only seventy million years ago their ancestors were carnivorous mammals who migrated in slow steps from the land into the ocean. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z My favorite stuff was from the seventies and eighties, old punk that Dad always played. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z After months in the KGB prison, including seventy days in solitary confinement, Powers learned that the Soviet government intended to put him on trial for espionage. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z During the seventies, it had been normal for Permian to have seven seniors qualify as National Merit semifinalists. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Follow the swastikas and you’ll eventually arrive back in the seventies with the KKK. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z When they got into town, Hazel followed the same route she’d used seventy years ago—the last night of her life, when she’d come home from the hills and found her mother missing. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z He’s three years older than me and great-looking, tall with wavy blond hair, finishing LSU law school, protected by a hundred and seventy miles of badly paved roads. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z On Saturday nights we went to the nearby town—a series of wood-framed small buildings, all without running water or electricity—wherein lived seventy or eighty people. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z She was about seventy now, a little more wrinkled but still petite and still kind. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z “In real life, I’d be almost seventy now. It’s hard to be sure when you never have a proper birthday.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z He looked old tonight, every single one of his seventy years was showing. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z She fixed on a longitude between ninety and seventy degrees. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The skies were lightly overcast, but the temperatures were in the low seventies. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z From the moment the Collier’s article appeared until the seventies, the woman behind the HeLa cells would be known most often as Helen Lane, and sometimes as Helen Larson, but never as Henrietta Lacks. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Warmer than feathers, the bare skin would raise the eggs to seventy degrees Fahrenheit. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z I earned seventy cents an hour and I went to bed each night now with a full stomach for the first ume in my life. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “In the late sixties, early seventies, I don’t think there was anyplace else that was exactly like Michigan,” Mike Alexander, one of the pioneers of Michigan’s computing system, said. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z I hear fifty . . . sixty-five . . . seventy . . the bidding was laggardly, nobody seemed really to want Babe, and the man who got her, a Mennonite farmer who said he might use her for plowing, paid seventy-five dollars. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “F.D.R. was not the last president. That was about seventy years ago.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Francis was looking out the window, “Yesterday it was nearly seventy degrees.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z We weren’t so poor that we couldn’t pay seventy dollars for something I had to have, but she would make me feel awful about it anyway. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Sixty-five, seventy, which, with the fifty dollars she had left from the car, made one hundred and twenty, then one hundred and forty dollars, one hundred and fifty. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z He was in his seventies by this point, so they whispered “old age” and helped him to his feet. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a short, round white man with red cheeks who could have been anywhere from fifty to seventy. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Some Jay-Z or one of them smooth seventies songs, because Needles looked like he needed some to go along with his outfit. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z She was nearly seventy, but her zeal was unbending. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The speed limit is seventy, but I make myself stay at sixty. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I imagine what Heather might look like in ten years, after two children and seventy pounds. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z That suddenly hit me at the meat counter, and it seemed a matter of life and death to drive home at seventy miles an hour to get a letter off to you. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z “Guess what? I finished restoring an old Coke machine today. Thing is like seventy years old.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z “Well,” Suesetta says, “the Detroit Housewives’ League has helped to create seventy thousand jobs for Negro men and women.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Julia Grant died on December 14,1902, at the age of seventy- six, and lies alongside her husband in a tomb in New York City. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z The public didn’t learn about the Tuskegee study until the seventies, after hundreds of men enrolled in it had already died. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z A woman in her seventies, with a broad face and short graying hair, she had a gentle, scholarly manner that masked an inner intensity. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z She was in her seventies but seemed as energetic as a glass of fresh squeezed orange juice. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z She was in her late seventies when I first met her. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “We took the best- performing Chinese data operators,” said Ohmae, “and now they are processing seventy houses a day.” The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z At first I imagined them in their seventies and then I guessed what they looked like in their twenties. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z “Yeah, you didn’t think, did you? You never do! And now we’re out two hundred and seventy dollars a week because of you.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z I wanted, however, something more from the new middle-class institution than either the decadent romanticism of the sixties or the careerism of the seventies. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It was another older couple in their seventies, waving from their second-story window. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z On Friday nights, he is a host for a Bible-study and dinner party for seventy or eighty Christian students, who serve themselves heaping plates of pasta before breaking into study groups. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Across from us, no more than sixty to seventy meters, Monaco sat, looking at his hands. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t mind, I guess. I’ve flown seventy missions without getting hurt. I guess I can fly a few more.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The remainder just sat there, reminding everyone how far short we had fallen of the 10 percent of the membership— about seventy people—required for a quorum. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Other prisoners had been added to the cages throughout the evening, and now there were more than seventy at Camp Greyhound; they were angry. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Cliff was in his seventies and still minding the tobacco barn behind the farmhouse his father had built decades earlier, checking the furnaces several times a day to make sure they stayed at 120 degrees. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The weight of seventy feet of rope coiled around her body? Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The Jeep was doing about seventy, but it wasn’t fast enough. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z All those stories from the seventies—burning crosses, Ku Klux Klan. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z “Some of those twelve men had already finished their seventy missions.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z And although Stephen Byerley was one man she could like and trust, she was almost seventy and the cultivated habits of a lifetime are not easily broken. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z In the seventies, as more and more Americans spoke out against affirmative action, university presidents were forced to take the defense. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The minute she started taking piles of the shirts into her arms, I ran to her side, and so did the other kids, almost seventy of us crowding around. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z His voice said, “I trust you seventy per cent”—and then he hung up. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z About one hundred and seventy photographs of the sun and the Earth were taken. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z "He's almost seventy, for God's sake!" the daughters said, defending the father. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z It was their first whaling voyage in seventy years. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z A gale set in on the fifteenth, and winds of more than seventy miles per hour drove them north for six days. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Bottom line: $7.02 worth of food acquired in seventy minutes of calling and driving, minus $2.80 for the phone calls—which ends up being equivalent to a wage of $3.63 an hour. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Like, seventy dollars. It’s ridiculous. All for a school crest on the breast pocket.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z He was cute, and Jennifer had a seventy percent crush on him, she admitted. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z By using seventy community health workers, Zanmi Lasante had vaccinated all the children in the area and greatly reduced local malnutrition and infant mortality. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “This polo brand-new. Lean on Sierra, her T-shirt been around since the seventies.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z The frog pool was square—fifty feet wide and seventy feet long and four feet deep. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z If the number was accurate, one out of every forty-five people in the town in the late seventies had reached millionaire status. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Row M. Not bad. Two hundred and seventy, right?” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Ohmae’s company even has contracts with more than seventy thousand housewives, some of them specialists in medical or legal terminologies, to do data-entry work at home. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z During the next boom period in the seventies and eighties, Odessa made a telltale leap into the twentieth century. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Hazel had been in Asphodel for something like seventy years and never found her mom. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Hanging from the ceiling were those yellow energy-saving lights from the seventies. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z The oldest man in the room—he looks like he’s around seventy—says he married his first wife because her name tasted like peanut butter. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z Later, when I came back together Julia told me that I had blanked out for about eighty-four-thousand miles—seventy minutes or so. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z By one estimate, its population dwindled to about three thousand—a third of what it had been seventy years earlier. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z How she could remember all the details, even though it happened like, seventy years ago. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z Some seventy miles east of the Colorado border, the countryside, with its hard blue skies and desert-clear air, has an atmosphere that is rather more Far West than Middle West. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “I bet you have pimples when you’re seventy years old. You’re never going to be able to eat a potato chip,” Mary Anne said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Caputo moved quickly through the chaotic streets to one of these spots and crowded onto one of several waiting buses, packing in with about seventy other journalists and U.S. embassy officials. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z In the gas-short seventies, however, when the manufacturer came out with the unfortunate Seville—a car that looked as though it had been rear-ended—I also felt misshapen. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I put my hand in my pocket and felt the crackle of thick paper seventy years old, and the new key weighing heavy in the seam of the threadbare woven wool. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z What does seventy million years mean to beings who live only one-millionth as long? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Olmsted was nearly seventy, his mouth aflame, his head roaring, each night a desert of wakefulness. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Then he melted into the shadows—just like her father had seventy years before. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z If we’ve arrived, then each of their “units” is over seventy years. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “Nearly seventy, I believe,” answered Meg, counting stitches to hide the merriment in her eyes. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z The Army have removed themselves—one hundred and seventy ships fleeing from the harbor—and the King's power there is no more. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z “Since you’re an epidemiologist,” I said, “did you know that seventy percent of household dust is actually composed of human epidermal matter?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z She was seventy when I was taken, which meant she’d be inching closer to eighty. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z “Hard to count—they keep moving around. But I make it between sixty and seventy.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z She punched the gas and we shot up the Williamsburg Bridge at seventy miles an hour. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z He was in his seventies and was wearing an old brown suit. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “He has more than seventy separate hexes operating on him. You ought to untie seventy knots.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z “Yeah, the movie said they dug over seventy feet down to support the towers.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z Some with shirt and tie on, and old seventies thrift-store jackets. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Nearly seventy of the ruffians lay dead on the field, and a dozen were prisoners. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The great actress was past seventy, but looked half that age from the stage. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Lanning is nudging seventy,” he said, as if that explained everything. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z In the sixties and seventies and eighties, the influx of Hispanics rapidly increased and many began living not only on the Southside but the west side as well. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Another day I followed an older man, lean and rangy, who looked to be well into his seventies. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z From there they made their way to the tower and climbed stairs another seventy feet to the tower’s exterior balcony. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z "I used to caddy once in a while, just to make some dough. I caddy'd for her mother a couple of times. She went around in about a hundred and seventy, for nine holes." The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z She said that only seventy percent of marriages stay together when they lose a child. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z They collected somewhere between thirty thousand and seventy thousand biting insects inside the cave—the cave is full of bugs. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But by the late seventies the debate over affirmative action concerned itself only with the rights of white middle-class students. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z One pound of CFCs can capture and annihilate seventy thousand pounds of atmospheric ozone. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “I need to go seventy miles today. Dirt roads.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z It was a bowstring truss seventy feet high. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z And seventies TV keeps me disturbingly more entertained than it should. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘I somewhere between seventy and eighty year old.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The combined river provided much more water to the city—it was about seventy feet wide. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z One hundred and seventy islanders turned out for Arthur’s funeral, which was held on a warm, cloudless day in June at the San Piedro Memorial Cemetery. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z But I have no idea if that even happens after you die, and if it does, it’ll happen whether I go this morning or in seventy years. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He is seventy now, with short gray hair and soft eyes that can water at a mention of the past. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z It took seventy years for that answer to establish itself, but once the telescope had been invented and turned into a scientific instrument it was the only answer with any chance of survival. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z This supervision, recorded on a stela erected seventy years afterward, is the first known example in Yucatan of a Mesoamerican specialty: the chaperoned coronation. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He could have been anywhere from forty to seventy years old. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z For comparison, at that time the population of all Europe extending to the Ural Mountains in Eastern Russia was about seventy million. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z I guess that would be over seventy years ago now. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Around noon the peregrine eggs reached seventy degrees. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z It was filled with the late seventies and early eighties music he loved. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z So the Osage bought the territory for seventy cents per acre and, in the early 1870s, began their exodus. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The expression 7.39842 x 1010 is more comprehensible and legible than seventy- three billion nine hundred and eighty-four million and two hundred thousand. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked older than in the picture Richard had seen, closer to seventy than sixty, but his was an elegant aging; his strides were long and his chin firm. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z "But—” "Percy,” Apollo said, "I wouldn’t worry too much. The last Great Prophecy about you took almost seventy years to complete. This one may not even happen in your lifetime." The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z He went around with his hair tied back in a ponytail, like a rock musician from the seventies, and talked a lot about things like reincarnation. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z In the nine weeks he’s been in Auvers, he’s made seventy paintings and thirty drawings. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “Well, Padre, they do have to fly more than seventy missions, because we’re transferring Dr. Stubbs to the Pacific. So adios, Padre. Adios.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z In the sixties and seventies, during the social upheaval of freedom rides and cafeteria sit-ins and boycotts in Birmingham and marches on Selma, Odessa stood locked in time. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The river was sixty or seventy feet across, leaving the lake, and the current at the sides seemed a bit slower. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z The tomb was hidden less than seventy kilometers from his school! Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z And then there was Nicole: How would she get through the next sixty or seventy years with half a face? Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z It was heavier than I’d expected—sixty or seventy pounds of precious gold wool. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z A spare container of butane gas for safety’s sake weighs seventy- five pounds. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I know it was almost seventy years ago, but the pain on Grandpa’s face is now. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Each target got smaller the farther back it was placed, and because the room was so long, the final target was nearly seventy yards away. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Six hundred and seventy miles to the south, on the Oakland Estuary—the University of California’s home water—Ky Ebright was facing remarkably similar problems. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The sea took more than seventy wooden homes from their stretch of coast. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z In late March of 1862, coffee had reached the unheard of price of seventy cents a pound, and the papers predicted that it would rise even higher. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z One hundred seventy flights transported 19,000 troops from the United States to Western Europe. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The difficulty is partly that I am hesitant to go seventy- two and partly that the minivan itself is hesitant to go seventy- two. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z It must have been at least seventy jumps each before the output began to slacken.“Other side,” Kendra gasped, breathing hard. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z There had to be as many as seventy pictures of screaming women. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Counting, Ten, twenty, thirty, forty deep into the winter until one afternoon gravity releases me and my feet fly free in the ropes, fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety . . . as my grandmother watches me. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z They divided the stuff into eight loads of about 5 6 seventy pounds each, figuring it would be foolish to try to carry more over the rough terrain ahead. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The outer parapet came up to her chin, but along the inner edge of the walk was nothing, nothing but a long plunge to the bailey seventy or eighty feet below. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “Ah, little Leo,” said Sammy Valdez, aged well into his seventies. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “I was met at the door by a woman of about seventy, slender and with a face full of dignity,” he remembers. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z They were both around seventy years old, or even more than that. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z He ceased publishing only in his seventies, when his Parisian optometrists urged him to preserve what was left of his failing eyesight. The Egyptian Satirist Who Inspired a Revolution 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z My grandfather was a retired life-insurance salesman in his seventies when I knew him best—if I knew him at all. The Second Man in the Front Row: A Forgotten Story of the First World War 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z She also, throughout the nineteen-sixties and seventies, used a tape recorder and her only camera, a Polaroid 360, to obsessively document life in the Warhol social circle. Brigid Berlin’s World in Polaroids 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z But in the seventies, the period shown in the film, he is a literary outcast, a virtual nonentity with no official career. A Russian Writer’s Lessons for Being a Nobody While Being Yourself 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z In the seventies, Rose said, he made no attempt to focus on the towers. When the Twin Towers Quietly Commanded the New York Skyline 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z “And then you become a grandmother and you exist again in your seventies. You have this dead zone.” Julie Delpy’s New Netflix Comedy Gives Voice to Women ‘On the Verge’ 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z The Norman Lear sitcoms of the seventies, whose familial spirit carried up to the edge of the aughts, now scan as cliché. A Korean Television Show About the Power of Pop Culture 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z The result is a delightfully outlandish family photo album, and a capsule of seventies suburbia crackling with humor and mischief. Seventies Long Island: The Whole Mishpocha 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z The Texas democrat's congressional campaign launch is also a compelling short film about a veteran and mom running against a Tea Party opponent that feels like a seventies era political drama. A feel-good cheat sheet to survive 2018: Life-affirming TV, movies, podcasts and more 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z What Young didn’t do, apparently, was leave an accidental trove of unreleased live recordings from his prime, in the mid-to-late sixties to early seventies. Larry Young’s Self-Questioning Jazz 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z “I came here in the seventies once, and this was all partitioned off—cubicles everywhere,” George Boziwick, the chief librarian of the Music Division, said, looking around. The Magnificent New York Public Library for the Performing Arts 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z Upstairs, the Slovak consulate was presenting a onetime screening of a documentary about Alexander Dubček, produced by TV Bratislava in 1991, a month before he was fatally wounded, at age seventy, in a car accident. The Day the Soviets Arrived to Crush the Prague Spring, in Rarely Seen Photos 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z Transplanted to America through Sarris's writings in the sixties and seventies, it took a very different form, energizing a generation of young filmmakers – Coppola, Scorsese, Altman – as they stormed the barricades of the studio system. Andrew Sarris: the last of the highbrows 2012-06-21T14:30:15Z Like Sloss’s other shows, “X” features a twist, of sorts, which arrives about seventy minutes into the set. Daniel Sloss’s “X,” a Laddish Comic’s Reckoning with #MeToo 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z Over the years, the technology industry has become a vital partner in his business, comprising as much as seventy percent of his customer base. The Gays And The Tech Industry: An Inclusive and Complicated Relationship 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z As a person in her seventies, I am thrilled to see the young, as well as people my age, flock to his candidacy with excitement, enthusiasm, and hope. Review: ‘Skeleton Crew,’ a Tale of Autoworkers in Hard-Hit Detroit 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z By the first episode this spring, half of the men at Sterling Cooper & Partners, including the silver-haired executive, had prepared for the seventies by growing mustaches. The Weird Agelessness of Don Draper 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z My second cruise, from 1980 to 1981, was wonderfully timed for a resurgence of energy in an art world that, like me, had drooped through the seventies. The Closing of the Village Voice, Downtown’s Magic Mirror 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z He kept us rocking and rolling throughout a seventy year career. Morgan Freeman Remembers B.B. King as 'Greatest Blues Icon' 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z Even she, a fashion-magazine editor in her seventies, understood the fantasy generated by a twenty-eight-inch piece of wood and four tiny wheels. The Flourishing of Skate Culture in a Sellout Era 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z Denis and I became friends in the late seventies, when we were both living in Phoenix, a city that neither of us loved. Denis Johnson’s Generosity 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z Put more succinctly: “dorky images from the seventies,” as Mark and Christy Kidd put it in their new memoir, “A Modern Marriage.” “We saw a wall-to-wall landscape of pleasure-seeking naked humans”: A married couple dishes on the crazy world of swinging 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z I let it play the Grateful Dead all morning, and it reminded me of the seventies country-rock I grew up listening to, and I liked it. Yelling at Amazon’s Alexa 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z And rather than that being daunting, for some reason in my seventies I just said this is terribly exciting. Q&A: Jeffrey Tambor Talks Transparent 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z His ex wife Kris recently called the speculation “silly,” saying, “They’ve been saying that since the seventies, so you think he’d been cooked by now.” In Touch’s dolled-up Bruce Jenner cover sparks outrage 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z “Professor in his late seventies sounded rather admirable,” Noah thinks, “but professor in his eighties?” Review | Emma Donoghue’s ‘Akin’ sends an odd couple to France 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z He hit his stride in the seventies, beginning with his breakout role as Lewis in “Deliverance,” in 1972. The Friendly, Sexy Stardom of Burt Reynolds 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z You don’t build a ministry that takes in seventy million untaxed dollars a year from tens of thousands of members worldwide without charisma. My search for Creflo Dollar 2013-01-06T23:00:00Z The act’s main influences are from the sixties and seventies, and it shows. The Chicago Band Whitney and the Fear of Being “Too Indie” 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z In the late seventies, she collaborated with the National Indigenous Institute and spent months living among the Seri, a nomadic tribe of hunter-gatherers and fishers. Graciela Iturbide’s Art of Seeing Mexico 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z Still, advocates estimate that between seventy thousand and a hundred and forty thousand clandestine abortions are carried out in Chile each year. Looking at How Abortion Restrictions Endanger Women’s Lives 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z An ethnographic thriller of overwhelming cultural richness, this film is based on the true story of a drug war that engulfed the indigenous Wayuu people of northern Colombia, in the nineteen-sixties and seventies. 2019 Has Already Been an Exceptional Year in Movies 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z But, as the church docent tells Sarah Manning, the institute was shut down in the nineteen seventies, which is just about right, historically. The History Lurking Behind “Orphan Black” 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z All told, there are at least seventy border walls in the world today. Do Walls Change How We Think? 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z Now in their seventies, they talked about their shared boyhoods. A Historian Who Fled the Nazis and Still Wants Us to Read Hitler 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z He recalled that the Kahlo and Rivera show drew more than seventy thousand visitors in just four months. The Battle Over the Soul of El Museo del Barrio 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z A friend who grew up in Bensonhurst in the seventies told her that the same thing happened in the city on summer nights, a great organic gathering of women on the stoops. The Summer Idyll of Free-Range Children Should Last All Year 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z These machines were first developed in the fifties and put into wide use by the seventies. “Modern chicken has no flavor” — let’s make it in a lab 2013-03-17T16:00:00Z They cared about the ideals of the late seventies and eighties—the blockbuster era. The George Awakens 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z Two things that heartland rock-and-roll fans coming of age in the late seventies had that earlier fans did not were punk rock and easy access to rock criticism. Why Rock Criticism Was Essential to the Replacements 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z Much of her band looked like my uncles in the seventies. Listen to Margo Price 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z There’s a phrase that turns up on several occasions in the film, that the mores at the time of Jenny’s abuse were different because it was “the seventies.” “The Tale,” Reviewed: A Filmmaker’s Daring Excavation of Her Own Memories of Sexual Abuse 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z Susan and I have been a couple since the early seventies. Editing Donald Trump 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z So, too, do his translations, which the magazine printed in the seventies, from the Russian, of Osip Mandelstam, and, from the Spanish, of Roberto Juarroz. W. S. Merwin in The New Yorker 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z Woods told me that, locked in a single room, he lost about seventy pounds. The Encyclopedia Reader 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z To watch the closing minutes of “II,” you’d swear you’re seeing the exact moment when the eighties emerged from the chrysalis of the late seventies. A Unified Theory of the “Rocky” Movies 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z The music that came out of Laurel Canyon in the early seventies. Salon’s author questionnaire: “Everyone appreciates a short book” 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z It’s hardly a secret that Japanese photography of the nineteen-sixties and seventies formed one of the high points of innovative camera work in the twentieth century. A Revolutionary Decade in Japanese Photography 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z “Ronnie Wilson was a genius with creating, producing, and playing the flugelhorn, trumpet, keyboards, and singing music, from childhood to his early seventies,” she wrote. The Gap Band founder Ronnie Wilson dies at age 73 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z If you’re from the seventies, like me, I recommend Pete Seeger to you today, this week, and as much as you need. Election Day in the East Village: Singing Helps 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z “The Town Hall Affair” uses technology combined with bravura performance to bridge the gap between the early seventies and the present. Norman Mailer’s Snarling Encounter with Feminism, Restaged in Trump’s America 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z For young people in the seventies and eighties, especially, “American Top 40” was a bridge between the music played at home, or on local radio, and the wider world of current pop. Casey Kasem: The Voice of Rock and Roll 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z As my mother has passed through certain age milestones—sixty-five, seventy, seventy-five, eighty—she’s described the experience as surreal; the numbers don’t at all reflect how she feels inside. Severed 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z Octogenarian Sonia Rykiel looked on from the front row Friday at her show that the program notes said went back to the "effervescent seventies." Dior hems plunge, Lanvin celebrates at Paris shows 2012-03-03T02:46:04Z The frontiers of feminism have shifted since the seventies, when both the Wages for Housework campaign and Heather Armstrong were born. A Woman’s Place Is on the Internet 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z My brother believed in a long, slow cure at room temperatures between sixty and seventy degrees. The complexities of cannabis: How I learned growing pot isn't for slackers 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z In the seventies, early eighties, and, frankly, ever since, Bryan Ferry set the standard for suave crooning. Cultural Clicks: Caitlyn Jenner's Predecessors, Bryan Ferry's New Video 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z The researchers were struck by the impact of regular physical exercise during the 2000-2011 period, when the volunteers were aged in their seventies or eighties. Daily exercise as beneficial to health in old age as quitting smoking, study finds 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z One thing led to another and the video went viral, the internet freaked out, and the two men—both in their seventies—lost their jobs. Internet Mob Justice Isn't Justice At All 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z Jackson’s great seventies and eighties albums—“Look Sharp!,” Joe Jackson, Past, Present, and Fast Forward 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z I would recommend this book to anyone from seven to seventy plus , especially if they care about the environment. White Dolphin by Gill Lewis - review 2013-01-04T09:00:00Z Poet Laureate decades earlier, and who still suffered from a near-fatal carriage accident that happened during her seventies, continued to publish collections even after saying she was done with poetry. Donald Hall’s Late Burst of Creativity 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z I discovered Greenwold while looking at the big mugshots by Chuck Close, the photorealistic work that he did in the seventies, and learned that Greenwold was the model for the iconic painting “Mark.” The Weird, Violent, Uplifting Paintings of Mark Greenwold 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z Decades later, when they were all in their seventies, my grandmother confessed her secret to one of the nuns, whose mouth stretched into a wry smile. The autumnal apple stack cake is rich in flavor and Appalachian folklore 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z The complex is set to sprawl over three hundred and seventy acres when it’s completed. Can a Big Government Push Bring the Nobel Prize in Literature to South Korea? 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z Mia’s rehearsing at the steering wheel of her Prius, blocking Seb’s way in his classic-Detroit sixties or seventies convertible; he honks, she gives him the finger, and the rest is inevitable. The Empty Exertions of “La La Land” 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z By the time both of them were involved with Apple, in the late seventies, Jobs had rerouted his creativity toward something less ephemeral. The Lingering Legacy of Psychedelia 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z With the tenor of a fable, “Wave” artfully traces the trajectory of this chapter of Gaspar’s life, from coma to consciousness and from isolation to connection, culminating in a triumphant use of seventies Bowie. Screening Room: A Short Film of Dreamy Imagery and Mysterious Language 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z I suppose Mrs. Wharton knows her Maupassant thoroughly; but unless I am quite at fault, it was not in the early seventies, but in the early eighties, that his tales began to appear. Review: ‘The Age of Innocence,’ by Edith Wharton 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z The story, headlined “Inflated Grades, Inflated Egos, Inflated Futures,” reported that seventy to seventy-five per cent of all grades given in the previous semester were A’s or A-minuses. The Unseen Student Victims of the “Varsity Blues” College-Admissions Scandal 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z By my due date, I was elephantine, seventy pounds overweight, unable to move well. “I should have had the drugs”: The pregnancy that made me fear cars, carrots, forest fires and David Bowie 2014-04-15T22:59:00Z Although its members are now in their late sixties and early seventies, they appear indefatigable; rancor toward injustice does not seem to mellow with time. Keep Folk Music Weird 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z One of James’s characters, Papa-Lo, a Jamaican gang leader of the nineteen-sixties and seventies, gives voice to this continual state of uncertainty. How Archival Fiction Upends Our View of History 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z His work not only foreshadowed many of the technological anxieties and possibilities of our era, but shaped the sensibility of the sixties and seventies in ways that continue to mark us today. When Philip K. Dick turned to Christianity 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z This evidently unshakable stereotype is partly a cultural hangover from the seventies. The Green Movement isn’t fringe! 2013-03-05T17:20:00Z Behind-the-scenes photographs of the Rolling Stones from the early seventies, many never seen and others little seen, are to go on display at the London gallery of Ronnie Wood's son Tyrone. Vintage Rolling Stones shots go on display 2010-04-07T18:25:00Z Yet the late seventies were also years of great uncertainty. Bill Bernstein’s Exuberant Images of New York City’s Disco Days 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z The census has not contained a question about citizenship for seventy years. How the Census Changed America 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z Upstairs, the Slovak consulate was presenting a onetime screening of a documentary about Alexander Dubček, produced by TV Bratislava in 1991, a month before he was fatally wounded, at age seventy, in a car accident. The Day the Soviets Arrived to Crush the Prague Spring, in Rarely Seen Photos 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z Released after 17 years, Steinberg, now in his seventies, still claims to have done nothing hurtful to anyone. Donald Trump is always the victim, but never to blame 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z In the seventies, a rash of murders of gay men struck the city, several of them characterized by “overkill”—excessive brutality that marks a crime as rage-driven, personal. “Uncover: The Village”: A Serial Killer, Toronto’s Gay Community, and a Podcast That Transcends True Crime 2019-05-03T04:00:00Z The sixties and seventies saw demands for “relevance.” What makes the ideal university? Six values that power higher education at its best 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z Many of their stories begin in times of social upheaval—the clamor of the sixties, Hollywood of the seventies—and today’s fractious political climate might seem to belong to the same trend. “Bikram” and the Fraught, Telling Tale of a Yoga Phenomenon 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z Liang Long, who grew up in a rural village in Dongbei in the seventies and eighties, first heard Western rock music when a friend returned from Beijing with a Guns N’ Roses videotape. Reinventing Alternative Rock in China 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z "If anything, his then-groundbreaking idea to depict real people and serious issues on television comedies feels even more groundbreaking now than it did in the seventies." Celebrating Norman Lear, progressive architect of the Archie-verse, as he turns 100 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z Those places had changed since the late sixties and early seventies, when Creedence was the biggest American rock band. Where John Fogerty's Songs Come From 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z In the early seventies, when I was still in high school, I became pregnant, much to my family’s chagrin. My Life in Smoke 2019-08-25T04:00:00Z Though anti-cross-dressing laws were technically taken off the books in the seventies, harassment and police profiling of gender-nonconforming people—particularly people of color—are still routine in New York City. Stuck in Stonewall 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z Like the misfit musicians who bought the Velvet Underground’s first album, the young kids of the seventies who pored over the first set of D. & D. manuals all went out to make their own games. The Twenty-Five-Year Journey of Magic: The Gathering 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z One estimate cited in Haaretz says that seventy percent of Palestinian families have had at least one relative imprisoned for actions against the ongoing Israeli occupation. I’m an American Jew. Palestinians tried to kidnap me. Then we became friends 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z I attended Smith College some seventy years after Child. The Passionate, Progressive Politics of Julia Child 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z He faces the death penalty for the July 20, 2012 mass shooting in an Aurora, Colorado movie theater that left twelve people dead and seventy injured. “He has a disease that changed his brain” — Aurora shooter’s mom pleads for mercy 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z When I reached the foot of the stairs, I thought, seventy seconds. Breathing 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z He even served as one of the founders of the mode, when, in the early seventies, around the age of twenty, he made movies on his own, starring himself, using Super-8 film. “Mia Madre”: Nanni Moretti’s Cinematic Shapeshifting 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z He carried it with him as he moved from house to house in the nineteen-fifties, sixties, seventies, eighties, and nineties. Leaving Aleppo 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z Five days in, my scores still hovered around seventy per cent. A Virtual-Reality Program to Conquer the Fear of Public Speaking 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z He was a trim man in his seventies, with bright blue eyes of a shade that I had never seen on an Egyptian. My House in Cairo 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z In the late sixties and early seventies, Campbell was ubiquitous, frequently guest starring on TV variety series and hosting his own, “The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour,” for four seasons. Glen Campbell: The First Good Ol' Boy of American Pop 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z In the sixties and seventies in Rwanda, you started learning French in elementary school, at age six. Scholastique Mukasonga on Tutsi Life and the Rwandan Genocide 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Since more than seventy per cent of journalists check Twitter to monitor their competitors, a snowball effect took hold, and stories multiplied. What the Covington Saga Reveals About Our Media Landscape 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z In one way, he harvested the best of the growing world of American academia as it boomed through the sixties and seventies, but in another way he helped direct that harvest. Postscript: Robert Silvers 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z By 1999, the government was estimating that the group had seventy million adherents; that year, more than ten thousand of them staged a silent protest in front of the central government compound, in Beijing. Stepping Into the Uncanny, Unsettling World of Shen Yun 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z She continued, for a time, to have major hits on country radio with her new pop sounds, but, as the seventies wound down, successes grew fewer and farther between. Tanya Tucker’s New Album Might Be the Best of Her Long, Underrated Career 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z In these and other works from the seventies, Burden went beyond the cliché of collapsing art into life—he transformed himself into a vanitas. Cultural Clicks: "Mad Men," the Radical Art of Chris Burden, and the Momofuku Empire 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z The duo are best known for their string of seventies and eighties-era hits, including the now-ironic “Love Will Keep Us Together,” and for Dragon’s apparent delusions of nautical credentials. Farewell, my muskrat love: Captain and Tennille divorce 2014-01-23T20:16:00Z In the seventies, computer science was a field dominated by “heads.” The Lingering Legacy of Psychedelia 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z He was on TV when you were growing up in the seventies. Peter Dinklage Is Still Punk Rock 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z “At some point in my seventies, death stopped being interesting,” he wrote in an essay. Donald Hall’s Late Burst of Creativity 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z Shot throughout the late seventies, “Stations of the Elevated” was the first film to capture scenes from the city’s emerging graffiti subculture. Before Gentrification, a City Covered in Graffiti 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z As always, his patient cameras gather masses of material—a hundred and seventy hours of it, in this instance—which he edits to delicately insinuating effect. How We Look When We Look at a Painting 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z In the process, he re-creates some of the world of the Village in the seventies, revealing joy and pain in equal measure. “Uncover: The Village”: A Serial Killer, Toronto’s Gay Community, and a Podcast That Transcends True Crime 2019-05-03T04:00:00Z I think what happened back in the seventies is that puritan America seemed somehow further away than it does now. “Writing about sex may have led me to writing about religion”: Tom Perrotta on theocracies, “The Leftovers” and why “The Scarlet Letter” is a coming-out story 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z Some seventy years later, Thanksgiving is still the one day around which my family’s annual calendar revolves. The Open Secret of Thanksgiving, and a Recipe 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z We don’t how Don Draper will end his saga, but we are very confident he’ll be wearing early seventies era pants when it happens. 10 reasons we can’t wait for 2014 2013-12-23T12:43:00Z In the late seventies, Jang moved to San Francisco, where he would often wander the city, taking in its scenes and subcultures. A Rediscovered Archive from California in the Seventies 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z This week brought news that code for about two hundred and seventy new emoji had been released by the Unicode Consortium, which manages the standards for how text appears in software products around the world. New Emoji, No Hot Dog 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z Rose, who studied photography at Cooper Union in the seventies, portrays the towers as giants whose size and blandness allowed them to both dominate the downtown skyline and recede into it. When the Twin Towers Quietly Commanded the New York Skyline 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Mary Tyler Moore, who died today, at the age of eighty, meant a lot to all of us; for feminists who remember the seventies, she was a member of the family. Postscript: Mary Tyler Moore 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z This was mainly in the sixties and seventies, when the publications and their writers dictated terms. The Celebrity Interviews of Yesteryear 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z People still associate you with the kind of music you were making in the sixties and seventies. “If You’re in the Song, Keep on Playing”: An Interview With Pharoah Sanders 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z To learn about the haunting minimalism of Ingram Marshall, we dip into his hippie years making electronic music in California in the early seventies. Q2 Music’s Brilliant “Meet the Composer” Podcast 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z I have been eating soft serve cones with rainbow sprinkles since I was a child in the seventies and I continue to enjoy that treat every shore visit! The Funfetti Explosion 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z The first “On the Town” had freshness and unexpectedness on its side, and those, of course, can’t be reproduced seventy years later. An “On the Town” for Our Time 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z She didn’t exactly blend in: she’s in her seventies, while most of the other participants were undergraduates, attracted by easy cash or free food. An Anthropologist Investigates How We Think About How We Think 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z And is not Guy de Maupassant out of place in the early seventies? Review: ‘The Age of Innocence,’ by Edith Wharton 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Wolf got his start in the late seventies as a rock songwriter before finding success as a pop and R. & B. producer in the eighties. The Noises That We Try Not to Hear 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z Back in New York, in the early seventies, Cheng started a band called the Dragon Seeds. Stephen Cheng Recorded a Cult Classic in Jamaica. Then What Happened? 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z His last film, “Like Someone in Love,” which he made in his seventies, is a daring new direction in his cinema and in the world of cinema at large. Postscript: Abbas Kiarostami, 1940—2016 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z In the seventies, first-rate breaks were discovered in Indonesia, Central America, Europe, the South Pacific; they appeared in surf magazines and movies, but their exact locations were left intentionally vague. Surfing in the Age of the Omnipresent Camera 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z Mostly this goes back to the antiwar songs of the late sixties and early seventies. Can You Like a Movie or Song That Has Something Wrong? Times Readers Respond 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z Because when you think “tough,” you think, Osmonds, dancing, in the seventies. The Osmonds are a little bit country, a little bit rock-n-roll — and a whole lot homophobic 2013-03-22T18:48:00Z “People were picking up books from the seventies on how to find a job,” she recalled. Weeding the Worst Library Books 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z Mary Richards, on the other hand, was as close to a mess as the television climate of the early seventies would allow. Everything I Learned from Mary Tyler Moore 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z Yet at the tender age of seventy, she is one of those stars whose mere look or voice brings back so many memories. Elizabeth Taylor, from beauty icon to punchline 2011-03-23T22:30:00Z The vibrance and squalor of the city in the seventies is spread across these pictures like a greasy film. Bruce Gilden’s Gritty Vision of a Lost New York 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z For most of his career, Barker has drawn 2-D cartoons; he started in the early seventies, when he was still in high school. A Stop-Motion Film About Power in the Wrong Hands 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Basically, he had one decade of greatness, the seventies. Richard Pryor, Flame-Thrower 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z During the early seventies she was held in prison and tortured repeatedly by the military dictators who ruled her country for nearly 25 years. Memorial for America’s conscience 2012-05-24T20:20:00Z Varda made the film in her early seventies, and, as traces of age were visible in her face and body, she didn’t shrink from depicting herself and those traces. Agnes Varda’s Radically Personal Films 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z “We said, ‘Can we borrow your crowd of seventy thousand people, please, for fifteen minutes?’ Tilda and Luca in Central Park 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z In the seventies, Evans was appointed managing director, and Monteith became chairman. The Unlikely History of Faber & Faber 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z Growing up in Pittsburgh, he adored “Oliver!” and “The Sound of Music”—this was the last gasp of the “event musical” era, before the studio system sputtered out, in the seventies. How Rob Marshall Made Mary Poppins Sing Again 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z Neither is the plot — it takes about 70 seventy pages for the story to gain momentum. Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles is looking a little long in the tooth 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Sheltering Arms Pool, another relic of the seventies, was much like the little one next to the Wagner Houses. The Swimmer: Manhattan Edition 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z More importantly, it is a city where the lessons of the seventies are reborn as noise pollution ordinances and stop-and-frisk policing. Before Gentrification, a City Covered in Graffiti 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Kalman, who is seventy, is dancing in the show, as well as speaking from memory, two things she is not at all used to doing and which, she admits, make her feel very vulnerable. Dancing to Robert Walser 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z Imprisoned in the seventies and eighties for his involvement in the pro-democracy opposition movement, he began writing prolifically after his release. Can a Big Government Push Bring the Nobel Prize in Literature to South Korea? 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z In 2005, she set a U.S.-marathon record for women age seventy to seventy-four—three hours, forty-six minutes, and eighteen seconds—which was broken last year. An Octagenarian Laces Up Her Sneakers for the New York City Marathon 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z Yet a second factor threatens the government’s plan: eighty-seven per cent of new hires in 2015 were temporary, and of these seventy per cent were for less than a month’s duration. A Movie that Captures France’s Dystopian Employment Situation 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z In the late nineteen-sixties and early seventies, what today is called gender dysphoria didn’t have a diagnostic label. Lou Sullivan’s Diaries Are a Radical Testament to Trans Happiness 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z He looks like he’s channelling seventies Eno or Bowie, and hoping to float up to space. Kurt Cobain’s Beautiful Heck 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z The first part of that equation is indisputable: beginning in the early 1960s violent crime in this country began rising and continued to rise throughout the sixties, seventies, and eighties. America’s favorite handgun 2012-09-23T15:00:00Z Perhaps his most crucial contribution is the role he has played in preserving the art of orchestral film music, which, in the early seventies, was losing ground to pop-song soundtracks. Listening to “Star Wars” 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z Here is the complete, mint-condition set of the lavishly produced sixties and seventies publication Source: Music of the Avant-Garde, a treasured gift from Gordon. Leaving Alaska 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z Pop stars like Gaga are especially amenable to the halftime slot because—unlike arena-rock bands—they know to avoid the temptation to play directly to the seventy thousand people gathered and whooping around them. Lady Gaga’s All-American Super Bowl Halftime Show 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z It’s big, roughly seven by nine feet, depicting a scene in an over-the-top teen-age girl’s bedroom from the seventies: twelve-inch TV, princess telephone, chemical colors, with a bedspread in the center. The Weird, Violent, Uplifting Paintings of Mark Greenwold 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z London Calling reminds us all of the gloomy seventies and punks who nowadays are just naff and nothing to be proud of. London Calling 2011-07-28T10:31:50Z Now, after 15 years, the piece will be presented again, this time at Dia:Beacon—the museum seventy miles north of Manhattan that opened in 2003. Dia:Beacon presents Robert Irwin’s Excursus: Homage to the Square³ 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z It had a real seventies modern look, with a black shiny interior, low lighting, and a curved sleek black Formica bar with high stools. A transgender Army bride in the ’80s 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z I’m thinking of the sixties and seventies, when my three sisters grew up, but I’m pretty sure that the generalization would hold true now, too. Tessa Hadley on the Bonds of Childhood 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z Then, in the seventies, under the influence of Solzhenitsyn in particular, Glucksmann turned decisively and permanently against all forms of totalitarianism. The Coruscating Moral Vision of André Glucksmann 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z New York society and customs in the seventies are described with an accuracy that is almost uncanny; to read these pages is to live again. Review: ‘The Age of Innocence,’ by Edith Wharton 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z That was the thing about those turbulent years: during the late sixties and early seventies, you felt angry and afraid much of the time—but never hopeless. Fake News, 1969: My Infamous Role in the Harvard Antiwar Protests 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z You had a hard row to hoe if you were a drug addict in the seventies. Apathy for the Devil: A 1970s Memoir by Nick Kent | Book review 2010-03-27T00:08:00Z It’s straight out of the seventies “Doctor Who” playbook. The Music of “Doctor Who” Makes a Glorious Return to Form 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z Not since the heady period of Bernstein and Boulez, in the sixties and seventies, has the ensemble shown such a sense of intellectual direction. Listen to the Future 2015-04-11T04:00:00Z Bouveresse, who, earlier this year, curated a historical show of women in the seventies who photographed other women for the Arles photo festival, in which Heyman’s work was included, encountered “Growing Up Female” by chance. Abigail Heyman’s Groundbreaking Images of Women’s Lives 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z On Avenue A, Roubert rang the bell of her friend Anton Van Dalen, an artist in his seventies, who keeps a coop on his roof that is said to be the last in the neighborhood. A Scholar of Pigeons 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z In the late seventies, millions of young people flocked to arcades for all the flashing colors and fantastical worlds, for unprecedented feelings of authorship and control. How Video Games Changed Popular Music 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z It wasn’t until I took a deep dive into the aesthetics of the early seventies that I realized how irreverent he was: the 1972 musical “Pippin” was ugly-beautiful. A Bob Fosse Film-Festival Diary 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z The Other Side of the Wind,” Welles’s unfinished seventies film, would probably have been treated in similar fashion: the scripts call for various kinds of jazz. Orson Welles, Musician 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z I am in my seventies now, so when writing Chapman's Odyssey I was looking back on a life lived, which every so often resembled my own. Paul Bailey's top 10 stories of old age 2011-02-02T11:31:42Z A jolly, voluble man of seventy, Mukuka was wary—“they write false stories about my father, they don’t tell the truth”—but keen to set the record straight. The Zambian “Afronaut” Who Wanted to Join the Space Race 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z “One hundred seventy pages?” says the woman whose job it is to sort through these hopes. The first challenge of a start-up contest: Sorting through all the buzzwords My grandparents had clashed with their own kids about unruly forms of independence in the sixties and seventies, but in Mary they saw nothing to rebuke. Postscript: Mary Tyler Moore 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z As the baby boomers enter their seventies and Alzheimer’s disease becomes increasingly commonplace, more and more fiction writers are attempting to reach into that obscure space. A Place Beyond Words: The Literature of Alzheimer’s 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z For anyone counting on being alive and kicking in their seventies, eighties, or beyond, director Michael Haneke’s film is quite the reality check. Can old age still have a happy ending? 2013-02-07T23:17:00Z My husband has decided that his religion, according to the Bible, does not allow him to "spill the seed," even though we are in our seventies. When the Cause of a Sexless Relationship Is — Surprise! — the Man 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z Now in her seventies and living in the Gramercy apartment she’s occupied for thirty years, Berlin recently digitized her extensive archive and, in November, will publish a book of her Polaroids through Reel Art Press. Brigid Berlin’s World in Polaroids 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z A younger generation in Spain sees the political pacts of the seventies and early eighties as the original sin of the country’s new democratic order. The Worldly Digressions of Javier Marías 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z One of the great strengths of the first season of “Slow Burn” was its deliberate, methodical study of the political Zeitgeist of the seventies. “Slow Burn” Season 2, Reviewed: The Painful Lessons of the Clinton Impeachment 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z The group’s members are now in their sixties and seventies. Mamma Mia! Swedish super-troupers ABBA to release new songs 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z It was only in the nineteen-sixties and seventies, with evolving attitudes toward civil and human rights, that states began repealing their sterilization laws. The Forgotten Lessons of the American Eugenics Movement 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z The photographer, who died in 2013, at the age of seventy, never replicated the initial success of “Growing Up Female.” Abigail Heyman’s Groundbreaking Images of Women’s Lives 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z Then they addressed the subject of the tip and decided they should leave seventy cents. David Sedaris: The IHOP Years 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z Woods, who is in his seventies, has received numerous awards for his work; all that stood between him and retirement was “Zettel’s Traum.” A Great Translator Takes on One Final and Nearly Impossible Project 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z A white couple in their seventies from Long Island was also celebrating a birthday. Stepping Into the Uncanny, Unsettling World of Shen Yun 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z Tickets were almost always sold out in advance, thanks to a mailing list that had started in the early seventies with 26,000 names and now including more than 200,000. “I won’t see the end of the year”: Backstage at Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead’s final shows 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z As large as her reputation is, age does its inevitable work, and Aretha Franklin now is not Aretha Franklin of her peak years, in the late sixties and seventies. The History of Aretha, in Ten Videos 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z For a couple in their seventies to call it quits may seem like an unusual move, but the reality is that the divorce rate among couples over 50 doubled between 1990 and 2009. Farewell, my muskrat love: Captain and Tennille divorce 2014-01-23T20:16:00Z But he didn't start recording in his own name until he was in his seventies, said Morgan. Miss.-born Pinetop Perkins' oldest Grammy winner 2011-02-14T22:22:13Z In spirit, I hear it as more connected to releases of yours from the seventies, on labels other than Ironic. The Unclassifiable, Unstreamable Eighties Albums of Annette Peacock 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z In the seventies, the fair had a ringside seat to the raging crime of the city, and made the transition to video games. In Search of “The Lost Arcade” 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z You look, photos even, going back into the late sixties, seventies, of Rumsfeld doing handstands and putting chopsticks under his nose, like they’re a mustache. Adam McKay on the Veracity of “Vice” 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z We do an exercise where everybody reads out loud from something they’ve written based on Jamaica Kincaid’s story called “Girl,” which ran in The New Yorker in the seventies. The Origins of 'Privilege' 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z Almost seventy years later, she recalled the scene to me in detail: how she was sitting on the floor, looking up at her grandmother on the couch, backlit against the living room’s bay windows. My Grandmother’s Desperate Choice 2017-05-14T04:00:00Z The tallest is seventy feet tall and detailed with cherubs, flames and gargoyles. A nice place to rest 2012-10-07T20:00:00Z What was your experience of the antiwar movement, the politics of the late sixties, early seventies? Robert De Niro Is Always Doing Something 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z I suspect that he was in his in his sixties, or perhaps even past seventy. Motherlode: More on Women and Medicine 2011-06-15T19:30:16Z Yet it was the end: Clarke, nearing seventy, began to feel the effects of Alzheimer’s disease, and she never made another film. Shirley Clarke and Elaine Dundy: The Escape Artists 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z Smith, now in his early seventies, has been visiting this cemetery since the late 1940s. A nice place to rest 2012-10-07T20:00:00Z For example, civility has been debated within the legal world since the early seventies, when judges and lawyers grew concerned with unruly courtrooms and popular impressions that their profession was stocked with crass, win-at-all-cost opportunists. The Civility Wars 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z The Windrush generation had initially been welcomed to England, at least perfunctorily; by the seventies, immigrants had become scapegoats for a faltering economy. What “Babylon” Captured About Racism and Reggae 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z This, again, is not exactly credible after the banking sector has just caused the largest crisis in seventy years. How Fox News created a new culture of idiots 2012-10-28T12:00:00Z In the late seventies, Tuttle was asked to write a chapter about bats for the National Geographic book “Wild Animals of North America.” The Joy of Bats 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z “We’re about fifteen thousand words into the story,” the first interlude begins, “a good seventy thousand more to go. Adjust your schedules accordingly.” Review: ‘The Last Magazine,’ by Michael Hastings In the late seventies, he gave poetry up, saying that it now seemed to him an affectation, like wearing a necktie. Postscript: Alastair Reid (1926-2014) 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z Comparing TV in the seventies and TV today: Norman Lear. Saturday TV Highlights and Weekend Talk: 'The Graham Norton Show' 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z Those who couldn’t find seats lingered outside, watching a live video feed of what was transpiring within; more than seventy thousand others streamed the proceedings at home. What Happened After Mexico’s Greatest Architect Was Turned Into a Diamond 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z There’s something funny about backgammon, and embarrassing, in a seventies Hugh-Hefner-life-style sort of way. This Week in Fiction: Jonathan Lethem on the Poignance of Backgammon 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z Thomas’s rightward drift, which began in the seventies, was inflected by the very ethos that once put him on the left: namely, disaffection with black liberalism and the mainstream civil-rights movement. Clarence Thomas’s Radical Vision of Race 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z It swept over levees, tossing boats on top of houses as if they were toys, and devastated much of the low-lying parish of about seventy thousand people. The search for Hurricane Katrina survivors: Door to door in St. Bernard Parish 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z The taste sensation is partly down to the array of tall earthenware jars where Mrs Kim, sprightly in her seventies, is fermenting sauces of gooseberry, green plum and other fruits. A foodie tour of South Korea 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z I went on stage with him at the Apollo in the seventies. Mick Jagger on James Brown: "I Copied All His Moves" 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z Look, we all said things in the seventies we couldn’t live up to indefinitely. Farewell, my muskrat love: Captain and Tennille divorce 2014-01-23T20:16:00Z Sequin-covered cropped vests added a touch of seventies glamour to some of the looks. Lanvin gets world-weary fashion crowd worked up 2010-10-01T21:00:00Z It's been said that the United States hasn't seen comparable social upheaval since the civil rights and anti-war struggles of the sixties and seventies. Did we learn anything from the hippies? 2020-09-07T04:00:00Z But it is not hard to prove that Amos and Danny did so—you only have to read those papers that they published in the seventies. The Two Friends Who Changed How We Think About How We Think 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z Every year, about seventy thousand people visit his home, Dove Cottage, which is maintained by an organization called the Wordsworth Trust. The Bizarre, Complicated Formula for Literary Fame 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z “There’s more to travelling than being on the interstate going seventy miles an hour.” Dirt-Road America 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z Especially in the seventies, eighties, and nineties, the tech sector demanded a utilitarian plainness, an ostentatious unpretentiousness, in its products—values that Apple rejected. Apple at Forty: Steve Jobs Led Us to the Fourth Dimension 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z If you think you have a lot of back issues to read, imagine that stack of magazines—it would be, by our calculations, nearly seventy feet high. A Summer in the New Yorker Archive 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z She began writing and illustrating her own books, and then, in the seventies, she turned to writing novels for young people. “The Westing Game,” a Tribute to Labor That Became a Dark Comedy of American Capitalism 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z The Yugoslav culture—which really meant television and popular music—of the sixties and seventies, up to Tito’s death, featured people like my parents, regardless of their ethnic background. My Mother and the Failed Experiment of Yugoslavia 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z The church is made up of about seventy people, and 90 percent of them are members of my immediate or extended family. Growing up in Westboro Baptist Church: We were “true believers,” everyone else the enemy 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z But “Star Wars” wasn’t all about nostalgia; the seventies got in there, too. The Crazy History of “Star Wars” 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z Despite his deafness and later blindness, Sykes continued to perform on stage and screen well into his seventies. Obituary: Eric Sykes 2012-07-04T11:18:49Z As noted above, the neoliberal period began around the seventies, and truly took off in the eighties, long after radical movements had dissipated. Socialism vs. barbarism: Only social democracy can defeat the right-wing radicalism of Donald Trump 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z In the late seventies he told an interviewer that he was born in Edinburgh. What did Robin Williams mean to you? 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z Now, that singing army of siblings from the seventies – the Osmonds – is back, this time to defend us from the gays. The Osmonds are a little bit country, a little bit rock-n-roll — and a whole lot homophobic 2013-03-22T18:48:00Z The title is derived from the Shaker Maker, a seventies toy that allowed children to mould small figurines with the aid of a mysterious powder called "Magic Mix." Pop music’s elitism problem: Why Oasis never got the respect they deserved 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z This is hardly surprising: about seventy per cent of tech employees in the real Silicon Valley are men. HBO’s “Silicon Valley”: The Gayest Straight Show on TV 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z In the seventies, young musicians enthralled by the new, collaborative possibilities of “free jazz” and avant-garde experimentation began moving to New York, where rents were cheap, loft spaces abundant, and zoning codes rarely enforced. My Journey with Jazz 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z She was one of the few remaining legends of the nineteen-sixties and seventies, when a new crop of writers from Latin America announced themselves to the world, with her help, and changed Spanish-language publishing forever. The Woman Behind Latin America's Literary Boom 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z Or consider “false comfort,” a phrase so common that a Google search turns up more than seventy thousand hits. Rembrandt and Gerard Manley Hopkins: How to Take Comfort in Art 2014-05-20T04:00:00Z He now commutes to Fort Wayne, Indiana, two hundred and seventy miles away, where he works at a G.M. plant assembling Chevy Silverados. “Janesville” and the Dangers of American Optimism 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z But this was no group of young, savvy crooks — most of the men were career criminals well into their sixties and seventies. 17 of the Most Unusual Heists in History 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z The Attenborough smile may have crinkled into Saint Nick benevolence in his seventies, but early on it was the chummy rictus of a man intent on taking your watch, your wife or your life. Remembering Richard Attenborough, the Man Behind Gandhi 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z In 2001, as Whitlock was in his early seventies and about to embark on his greatest period as a racer, the photographer Jason Fulford took pictures of him for the Canadian magazine Saturday Night. Remembering Ed Whitlock, the Marathoner Who Was Still Breaking Records at Eighty-Five 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z And, in other ways, “Star Wars” is of a piece with everything that was happening in the seventies, with the search for greater meaning that was happening at a societal level. The Crazy History of “Star Wars” 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z Add Frances de la Tour, a sitcom stalwart since Rising Damp in the seventies, and this show is an instant classic. ITV's gay sitcom fails to impress 2013-04-30T10:12:43Z For now, that is our anchoring point, an acceptable innings, with seventy too soon, sixty unfairly so, and so on. Meeting Death with Words 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z His trio of the late sixties and early seventies, featuring Jamil Nasser and Frank Gant, was built for wide, open space. Two New Recordings by Two Jazz Greats 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z The story begins in 1918, seventy years before Harry Potter’s commences. Eddie Redmayne Reportedly Discussing 'Harry Potter' Spin-Off Film Series 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z They were two jerks with their seventies schlongs swinging all over the place and getting away with murder because of their talent. A Bob Fosse Film-Festival Diary 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z Bulkeley guided the seventy- seven- foot boat away from the concrete pier and aimed out to sea to rendezvous with the others. “Keep the flag flying”: Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s escape from the Philippines, 1942 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z He is nearly seventy with weary blue eyes, but still handsome. A nice place to rest 2012-10-07T20:00:00Z Hybrid vigor can fortify a voluptuous rose’s seventy small petals against beetles and disease, just as it can fortify and strengthen a man or a woman against the effects of an incurable virus. Street of the Iron Po(e)t, Part XIII 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z In the seventies, we were going further into understanding what are the politics of being gay, what are the politics of being in a relationship with a woman or women. Barbara Hammer’s Exit Interview 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z In the 2003 Toronto Waterfront Marathon, at the age of seventy-three, Whitlock became the first person over the age of seventy to break three hours in the marathon. Remembering Ed Whitlock, the Marathoner Who Was Still Breaking Records at Eighty-Five 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z Yet Rudolph’s distinctive and original approach to directing may well be the reason that, though he has been working in the center of Hollywood since the seventies, he nonetheless remains an unduly marginal figure. What to Stream: “Afterglow,” a Melodramatic Spotlight for Julie Christie 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z All night, the singers were engaged, energetic, in the moment, performing seventies and eighties Bowie faithfully but without approaching camp. David Bowie, Celebrated by His Friends 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z You certainly could not have expected that in your seventies you would become a judge on "Great British Baking Show." Ageism, affairs and Mexico Week: Getting personal with Prue Leith of "Bake Off" 2023-01-07T05:00:00Z Hahn grew up in Seoul in the nineteen-sixties and seventies, in a household with “oppressively conservative” parents, myriad rules, and a bathroom. A New Castle on Fifty-Seventh Street 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z In the first year, there were seventy or something. Barbara Hammer’s Exit Interview 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z One reviewer of the Isaacson book compared reading it to “going backstage at a Led Zeppelin concert in the seventies and seeing your heroes wasted, and babbling like babies, surrounded by bimbos.” Trump, Jobs, Zuckerberg: We idolize jerks 2012-08-12T12:00:00Z He studied visual art at Rutgers in the late seventies, which, he said, led to his playing music. Time, Remixed 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z In fact the Great War didn't truly end until the fall of the Berlin Wall over seventy years later. In France, Vestiges of the Great War’s Bloody End 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z Daniel Riley: Southern California, the seventies, stewardesses, sisters, skyjacking. Salon’s author questionnaire: “Everyone appreciates a short book” 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z A short and solidly built woman in her seventies, with a mop of dark hair and kohl-rimmed eyes, Tsemel is on her way to the courthouse’s detention cells to meet with a client. “Advocate” Documents the Battles of an Israeli Activist 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z After decades of disuse, the term was repopularized in the seventies and eighties by people of color and queer communities—this time as a gesture of defiance. The Politics of Conspicuous Displays of Self-Care 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z Elsewhere, his “S.N.L.” charges celebrated what has changed since the seventies, and what still needs to. The 2018 Emmys: Nerd Love and Hannah Gadsby Won the Night 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z Vert ramps emulated the empty swimming pools where seventies riders had finally learned to air up over the coping. Jonah Hill Faithfully Re-creates the Raw, Fleeting Years of Skate Culture, in “Mid90s” 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z Their deaths sparked riots that zigzagged across the country, lasting several weeks and spreading to around two hundred and seventy towns. Houda Benyamina, the French Filmmaker Who Brought the Banlieues to Hollywood 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z New York society and customs in the seventies are described with an accuracy that is almost uncanny; to read these pages is to live again. Review: ‘The Age of Innocence,’ by Edith Wharton 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Rewinding through the seventies and sixties, we arrive at 1957, when the three of them convene for the first time, on a rooftop, as hopeful youngsters gathering to watch Sputnik glide by. Revisiting a Legendary Sondheim Flop 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z “Sixty or seventy years ago, Olivetti did exactly what Apple did 30 years ago,” he said. In Milan, Every Third Year’s the Charm 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z The story closes with a call to imagine a new version of Bob James’s famous theme tune to “Taxi,” the television show that aired in the late seventies and early eighties. This Week in Fiction: Ben Lerner on Art, Language, and Uber 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z Man, there are times I think America had become so saturated in irony—starting in the late seventies—that we lost touch with the fundamentals: birth, love, death. “Thinking about how to transition”: David Means and Luke Mogelson, short story masters, contemplate the novel 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z In the late seventies, Gowin read the poems of William Blake, and he was struck in particular by Blake’s mythmaking in “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.” Emmet Gowin’s Intimate Photography of Nuclear Destruction 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Now in his seventies, the business dwindled as he devoted more time to his art collection. Burrell: The art of shipping 2013-05-28T23:26:55Z These developments have occurred at a time when the number of people worldwide who’ve been displaced by violence is at an all-time high—some seventy million, according to the U.N. What Are Borders For? 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z It can, however, make extreme demands on audiences: one work, by Frey’s comrade Manfred Werder, contains only two distinct sounds, distributed across an indeterminate duration—seventy minutes, in one rendition. The Otherworldly Minimalism of Jürg Frey 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z In the seventies, Lee’s parents immigrated to America from Taiwan, eventually settling in suburban New Jersey, where they ran a Chinese restaurant. Listening to George Michael in Taiwan 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z And an impact—especially one with a vehicle traveling over seventy miles an hour—could certainly knock the scales off a butterfly’s wings. “They ripped him apart”: Searching for answers in the suicide of bullied teen Jadin Bell 2013-09-08T11:00:00Z Were you writing in this vein all along but not using the material with other groups in the seventies? The Unclassifiable, Unstreamable Eighties Albums of Annette Peacock 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z After more than seventy years of operation, the bar closed when Katrina hit and never reopened. A Vanished New Orleans Captured on “Straight from the Projects” 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z The successive musical revolutions that Davis fought, from the forties through the seventies—of which his music bore the scars—had come to an end; he came back, but he was no longer advancing. Rosh Hashanah with Miles Davis 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z We’ve reached a point where directors and audiences no longer derive authenticity from what looks “real” but from what looked real in seventies, eighties, and nineties blockbusters. Hollywood’s Turn Against Digital Effects 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z He chartered a plane to Moscow and took nearly seventy people with him. Garry Kasparov Says We Are Living in Chaos, But Remains an Incorrigible Optimist 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z I recently watched a bunch of episodes from the seventies and eighties, and journeyed, via the magic hanging screen he called Picture Picture, to a Crayola factory. How Mr. Rogers Became Everyone’s Neighbor 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z They said Harrison took up marathon running in his seventies to raise money for charity. 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The Campaign to Remove a Shocking Painting from the French National Assembly 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z In one thread, it explores a budding romance between a teen-age boy and an older woman, which springs from their their shared love of seventies rock and roll and settles, slowly, into friendship. “Forever,” a Big-Hearted Satire Bolstered by the Brilliance of Maya Rudolph 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z If you were a kid in the late seventies, there’s a good chance that you played with an action figure of Carrie Fisher. Carrie Fisher’s Powerful Force 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z It was a popular lyrical theme in R&B in the early seventies, the newlywed period for my parents. The soul songs that saved me: Sexuality, the South, sadness, meet Al Green and Aretha 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z Middletown’s industrial jobs began to disappear in the seventies and eighties. 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Your stuff can kill you: How hoarding creates death traps 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z For pop-culture enthusiasts of the seventies and eighties, reports of the death of Burt Reynolds, at age eighty-two, of a heart attack, in Jupiter, Florida, may have come as an unexpected shock. The Friendly, Sexy Stardom of Burt Reynolds 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z As of Wednesday afternoon, he had received nearly seventy grand. The Potato Salad Guy Should Keep Every Penny 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z Seventy years of moments, seventy years of being human. Patti Smith on Singing at Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize Ceremony 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z “Nineteen seventy seven was a very important time for the feminist revolt, particularly in Europe,” said Guadagnino.“We were very interested in that, given the subject of the film.” Make way for the matriarchy – has #MeToo changed the movies? 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z In the seventies, the band was coöpted by Mobutu as he tried to rid the nation of colonial influence, and O.K. 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Song of the Summer: “Femenine,” by Julius Eastman 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z It had all been described to me in great detail by June Shelley, who, in those crucial months in the early seventies, served the Stones as a girl Friday. Secrets of the “Exile” sessions: Drugs, sex and madness as the Rolling Stones took over France 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z Ling then explores an earlier set of unsolved killings in Gay Village, in the seventies, providing historical context and empathy as he seeks answers and talks to widowers, siblings, activists, retired cops, and beyond. Three Podcasts to Listen To in May 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z Her worthless movies of the seventies and eighties are not really held against her. Elizabeth Taylor, from beauty icon to punchline 2011-03-23T22:30:00Z “The Golden Bough” was enjoying a huge revival in the seventies; everyone was reading it. The Crazy History of “Star Wars” 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z In Germany in the late sixties and seventies, forward-looking musicians were working with sequencers, analog synthesizers, drum machines, tape loops, and exotic instruments. The Invention of Ambient Music 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z When the first wave of graffiti hit New York, in the early seventies, it was, in the eyes of sociologists and newspaper columnists, symbolic of a broken system. Before Gentrification, a City Covered in Graffiti 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Other Canadian game shows followed, until Trebek moved to the United States in the early seventies, where he began hosting game shows like "Wizards of Odds" and "High Rollers." Alex Trebek has died: Remembering the "Jeopardy!" host who made asking questions fun 2020-11-08T05:00:00Z Lloyd Webber first had the idea for “Cats” in the late seventies. 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