Word: caped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lose the income from a nationally syndicated column that helped syndicated column that helped pay the school bills for five children. The Woodses will still enjoy the trappings of upper-middle-class life: a big, sunny home with leaded, stained-glass windows, spacious rooms with smoothly rubbed, yellow wood Cape Dutch antiques, a swimming pool, two cars...
...Wampanoag Indians in Mashpee, on Cape Cod, are now in court seeking to regain some of the land they lost to the white man centuries ago. Another group of Wampanoags on Cape Cod obtained some tribal land by concession from their town's government, and the Passamaquodies along with the Penobscot tribe are suing Maine for nearly half the state...
Escape, the philosophers say, is a major theme of human existence. Man is constantly trying "to get away from it all, but somehow never makesit any farther than the Cape, the Jersey Shore or the corner bar. Life's grip is too tight; escape from the mundane constraints of reality requires creativity, daring or foolhardiness. Perhaps that is why there are escape artists...
Under cover of darkness last week, South African police loosed the country's most draconian wave of repression in almost two decades. Cruising the predawn streets of ghettos from Durban and Cape Town to Soweto outside Johannesburg, they detained within hours many of the best-known black leaders in the country, more than 50 in all. In addition, under orders issued by Pretoria's Minister of Justice James Kruger, South Africa's largest black newspaper, The World (circ. 146,000), was banned and its editor, Percy Qoboza, jailed without charges...
...lust, all right, but in the person of Frank Langella as a demonic force from the nether world, there is also a doomed lyrical romanticism, a nocturne by Chopin, infused into the play. Tall, slender, incomprehensible as magic, garbed in a cape of Stygian splendor, with a face sculptured in alabaster, Langella's Dracula is no flittering bat but the noblest prince of darkness-the fallen Lucifer-as the play makes elliptically clear, whom only the Cross and the stake can bring to his apocalyptic destiny. Langella has always been a spectral, neurasthenic figure onstage with a temperament...