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Word: capes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American civil leader as he made his way among the shacks and shanties that are home to more than 1 million people in the black township of Soweto, near Johannesburg. Earlier, Jackson had addressed a group of residents at Crossroads, a famed squatter community on the outskirts of Cape Town. He was greeted there by a banner reading WELCOME HOME, NOBLE SON OF AFRICA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Noble Son | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

...American theater, and consummate physical control. In one scene in the stage Dracula, he brought off a piece of vocal and physical ballet: dodging and twisting around outstretched crucifixes, rasping out curses in defiance of his mortal captors, raging and hissing as he buckles into his cape and subsequently dissolves into a puff of smoke. How can he transfix us so in the face of Badham's busy camerawork and sudden flashes of gratuitous violence...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Staking the Wild Vampire | 7/31/1979 | See Source »

...evil and harsh; it is for playing ball and going to school and applying fresh Clearasil after every class. Daylight means exposure. Whereas Dracula haunts the shadows, dissolves into a puff of smoke, a wolf or a bat. And he can hide his hard-on in his cape...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Staking the Wild Vampire | 7/31/1979 | See Source »

...found in Hawaii. But experts contend that Florida in the wintertime approaches Hawaii in excellence and argue that San Francisco Bay is "the Aspen" of wind-surfing because of its challenging winds and strong waves. Other highly touted places include the mountain lakes of the Sierras, Buzzards Bay off Cape Cod, the Gulf Coast of Texas, the Great Lakes and the lakes of Minnesota...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Try to Catch the Wind | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

Opposition had been growing long before Apollo XI left the pad at Cape Kennedy. The $25 billion price tag for the manned space program, spread out over ten years, provided a nice target for those who thought we should "solve our problems on earth before we worry about space." The public image of NASA and space exploration evolved into one of tremendous waste, of massive expenditures for little or no return...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: How Giant A Leap | 7/20/1979 | See Source »

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