Word: augusts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...John Cheever. The creatures who most enjoy themselves may be the 15-year-old girls on the beach who all day squeeze lemon juice on their hair and lazily brush it in to make blond streaks; their faces as they do it are as perfectly empty as certain August afternoons...
...August 1968, at one of Lyndon Johnson's Tuesday lunches, Johnson was jubilant. He allowed his men a little sherry to celebrate the announcement scheduled the next morning that nuclear arms talks between the superpowers would begin, that Johnson and Kosygin would hold a summit to seal the deal. That afternoon Soviet tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia. The summit vanished...
...fathers and mothers, a world centered on the family, the community, the Lord. Southerland's account is lyrical and as unabashedly emotional as old-time religion. There is, for example, the author's description of a "testimonial" by the Reverend Brother Daniel A. Torch, given one hot August Sunday at Brooklyn's First Baptist Church: "The South's heat soft in the body of his song . . . His voice wide as the sun, filled with pain. Crying for his dead brother...
...Cambridge Biohazards Committee approved the opening of Harvard's special containment recombinant DNA laboratory, delayed since August 1976 by controversy over the safety of DNA experimentation. Harvard shelled out $600,000 to keep genes in and Cambridge City Council out--even though new federal guidelines for DNA research effectively eliminated the need for the building...
...Hair, both of which were screened outside of competition at Cannes. While Apocalypse's Cannes victory will not hurt, it may not be much help to a movie that must be an alltime box-office smash just to break even when it opens at American theaters in August...