Word: borings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...government housing. "Drop it, Meg," was the Herald's blunt advice. But Mrs. Whitlam, whose liberal views on abortion, sex and marijuana have shocked Australians in the past, held on. "I've subjugated myself for an entire year," she said, adding that even official trips were a bore. "Your visit as a Prime Minister's wife so often entails nothing but saying 'how do you do' to 500 people...
Also in the capsule was a small plain envelope that bore, in a neat, modest hand, a simple message: "To the descendants of Stephen Tully and Charlotte Augusta Clarke. To be advertised in a New York paper when this box is opened." Stephen Clarke was the Tribune's financial editor from 1863 to 1869, the year he died, and inside the envelope are photographs of him, his wife Charlotte, son Henry, and daughters Charlotte and Mary Jane. The requested notice for the Clarke heirs to step forward and claim the family portraits was duly placed in the New York...
Kissinger Trademark. The preliminary agreement bore the unmistakable trademark of U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger: it was precise enough to maintain diplomatic momentum but vague enough to satisfy all parties. The Egyptians were pleased, for instance, that the disengagement talks were beginning so quickly and that "other working groups" were to be set up later. The Israelis were relieved that such imprecise terms as "at some future date" or "as needed in the light of future developments" were included, thereby enabling them to begin the talks immediately, but to stall until after the Israeli elections on Dec. 31 without...
What is really exceptional here, though, is the acting. Adam is cold, Aryan and deliberate, a Max von Sydow who is best when working with his hands, saying quietly, "Life is still long enough to learn how to dig." He bore suffering and experience well, which sets the mood of the second act. But the suffering of Eve is even more important...
...earth-orbiting X-ray satellite Uhuru, which detected a strong and widely fluctuating flow of X rays from Cygnus. Scientists suspected that the radiation source, which they named Cygnus Xl, was a pulsar, or neutron star, the result of a different form of stellar collapse. But the uneven fluctuations bore no resemblance to the steady bursts of radiation from other pulsars...