Word: arabellas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...manufacturing or lax quality control resulting from NASA's recent economies. Chief Flight Controller Eugene Kranz agreed, but then added: "We'll never know until we get the darn things down and look at them." There was one performance that no one could fault: a spider named Arabella, on board Skylab for a biological experiment, accommodated to space flight within only a day or two, learning to spin her complex geometric web in zero-G after only a few false starts. Said Garriott with a touch of envy: "She is a very fast learner indeed...
...Arabella House, near the West German city of Kaiserslautern, is a well-kept building with 72 single-room-and-bath apartments and such amenities as tennis courts, bowling alleys, beer cellar, nightclub, sauna, solarium-and a fully equipped room for sadomasochists. Arabella is what its operator, Kurt Kohls of Ulm, likes to call an "Eros center" and what almost everyone else would call a brothel. Kohls already runs four such centers in West Germany and Austria, and hopes to open other Arabellas in Luxembourg, Holland, Hungary, Yugoslavia and East Berlin...
...Married. Arabella Churchill, 22, granddaughter of Sir Winston, and occasional charity fund raiser; and James Barton, 23, Scottish schoolteacher; both for the first time; in London...
...April Azalea Festival in Norfolk, Va., headquarters of NATO's naval command for the Atlantic, has had 17 queens over the years to smile prettily in tribute to the Alliance. In December, Sir Winston Churchill's beauteous granddaughter, Arabella Churchill, 21, said that she would be delighted to be Azalea Queen No. 18. But last week the festival made public a letter from Arabella saying she had been reading up on NATO and had decided against azaleas. "My Grandfather used the phrase 'The Iron Curtain,' " she wrote. "It seems to be that what is facing...
...this set, designed by a talent named Franco Colavecchio who also did the costumes, is superb in every respect. Its somber facade, constructed from grayish lumber, in three tiers of Italianate colonnades, is appropriately weighty in appearance. A quick turn of some stage machinery turns left-stage quickly into Arabella's bedchamber (be careful to watch the metamorphosis in her pillow as her sin and the play's action deepen: first it picks up a red ribbon on the end, then it becomes pure scarlet); a massive crucifix lowered from the ceiling turns right-stage into the friar Bonaventura...