Word: capes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Beyond the long curves of palmetto and Australian pine, huge billboards promise Treasure Coast, Orlando, Cape Canaveral, St. Augustine. But on I-95 there is no sign of habitation. Even the armadillos are dead. The highway flies over Jacksonville and descends in the low salt marshes of Georgia. Savannah, by some gracious concession of the engineers, is only 14 miles away, a snoozing 19th century time capsule. At Mrs. Wilkes' famous boardinghouse, breakfast is served on 13 platters, and a man at the table says he works on the railroad...
...invented tale called The Baker and His Wife, about a couple who long to escape the curse of childlessness inflicted by the "witch next door." Inasmuch as the holy grails that will lift the witch's spell are Jack's beloved white cow, Little Red Ridinghood's crimson cape, Rapunzel's yellow hair and Cinderella's golden slipper, by the end of the first act the fairy-tale figures have bonded into a community and sing and dance about living happily ever after...
...Republic of South Africa, "First Report of the Constitutional Committee of the President's Council" (Cape Town: Government Printers, 1982). The authors find especially noteworthy Professor Huntington's remarks regarding the problems of a "fully inclusive system;" they quote at length his arguments against a system of one-person, one-vote for South Africa...
Most of the 1987 events have been bringing in $10,000 to $25,000. The son of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy has not planned any large events similar to last year's cookout at the Kennedy compound on Cape Cod that brought in some $75,000, McDermott said...
...letters at 221B Baker Street, even though the place now houses the Abbey National Building Society. Groups on four continents regularly meet to study the canon (56 stories and four novels), as well as some 12,000 books about the sacred writings. The familiar lean figure with Inverness cape, deerstalker and underslung pipe regularly appears in the headlines. Speculating two weeks ago on who laid the mines plaguing U.S. convoys in the Persian Gulf, David Mellor, a British Foreign Office official mused, "Sherlock Holmes wouldn't take too long to resolve that...