Word: capes
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However, she says her work in college was not completely irrelevant to her current occupation. In the one composition course she took, McCaffrey wrote a Gothic tale for an assignment based on a visit to the Cape Cod summer home of one of her girlfriends who, in 1950, was also a bridesmaid at McCaffrey's wedding. Snowed in with no central heating, McCaffrey says, "I used quite a few elements of that Easter weekend in Mark of Merlin...
...professional magicians scoff at Blaine's dime-store bag of tricks: making a chosen card rise out of a deck or reappear after being torn to pieces. But in magic, style is everything, and Blaine's intense, streetwise persona is nothing like your typical gabby Vegas showman in a cape. His deceptively low-key, ultracool manner leaves spectators more amazed than if he'd razzle-dazzled...
...CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida: Despite Russia?s financial woes and the rickety condition of its Space Station Mir, Russia will be kept on board as a full fledged partner in the construction of the international space station, NASA announced Thursday. Agency officials said Russia would live up to its end of the deal and launch the station's first component, a U.S.-financed service module, in June, 1998, seven months behind schedule. The move comes amid growing concerns about Russia's ability to meet the demands of the station in light of recent troubles at the Russian Space Agency, which have...
...vote for reticence. The current statue--F.D.R. in his wooden kitchen chair with casters, a great cape hiding the tiny wheels from all but the most observant visitor--captures perfectly Roosevelt's cloaking of his disability. At a time when our politicians are "stricken with self-pity and given to sniveling" (to quote Mary McGrory), what a balm is Roosevelt's attitude of defiant and dignified denial...
...working with African patriots," he says. "Before, the U.S. called us leftists. What did it mean? We were just fighting for independence." With Nelson Mandela's South Africa as an additional beacon, Museveni's highlands sphere is creating a new sense of possibility from the Nile to the Cape. The new leaders might yet evolve into oppressive Big Men themselves. But for now, a part of the world that once was known as the Dark Continent is hoping to find itself...