Word: caped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mere hour's drive separates the prison farm where Nelson Mandela is being held and State President P.W. Botha's white-pillared residence in Cape Town. But the political distance between those two men has always seemed unbridgeable. They have personified the country's racial stalemate: Mandela, who turns 71 this week, insisted that he would make no deals with the white government while he remained a prisoner; Botha, 73, vowed that he would never free the symbolic leader of the nation's black majority unless Mandela forswore the use of violence...
START with a love triangle, its vertices a married couple and a single, widowed woman. Add that the three are artists living, year-round, next to a pond on the Cape. Toss in a schism that threatens to destroy forever the 10-year bond that had kept them knit together...
...lives of Willie and Susan's sensual son, Jimmy (who has recently separated from his wife), Tyrone's daughter, Laurie (whose husband has died from a drug overdose), and Tyrone himself, who lives the ritzy business executive's life in New York but makes frequent pilgrimages to the Cape...
...rather than get myself into confusing situations, I have found that when I am true to myself, as Polonius suggests, I have had great times at Harvard--eating picante sauce with Cape Cod potato chips, dating whom I want, even if he might be from the East Coast, and being honest with my friends...
...tall order, but the National Park Service wants to jack up the 208- ft.-tall, 2,800-ton Cape Hatteras Lighthouse and move it half a mile inland, away from encroaching surf. Only 200 ft. of sand now separates the 118-year-old tower from the churning Atlantic. Cost of the proposed move: $8.8 million. Local residents who have grown up in the shadow of the lighthouse are not yet sold on the idea. "They tell us we can't climb the tower anymore because it has cracks in it, but they can pick it up and move it without...