Word: capes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...used to love Super Grover. I had a Super Grover Cape and would wear it around the house," said Laura J. Letterer...
...York society of the 1870s, Newland Archer (Daniel Day-Lewis) is a true romantic gentleman. He is romantic because he wants to shrug off the opera cape of domestic respectability and follow his heart to hell with the Countess Olenska (Michelle Pfeiffer). He is a gentleman because, having already declared his love to pretty May Welland (Winona Ryder), he is bound to behave honorably. He knows that when passion and propriety collide, only bitter defeat may rise from the wreckage...
...from the world community will finally come to an end. Anticipating that moment, A.N.C. president Nelson Mandela last week made an urgent plea for foreign firms to help repair the wreckage of the long antiapartheid struggle. "We need massive investment," he told a group of South African businessmen in Cape Town. Lifting sanctions, Mandela said, would be "an important psychological step" toward renewal...
That meant because she was white. There was confusion as to exactly which black political organization her killers were aligned with. On Wednesday the Cape townships swarmed with members of the Congress of South African Students, a group affiliated with Nelson Mandela's African National Congress. In support of a national black teachers' strike, some of its members had initiated a campaign of violence and arson. But the "settlers" remark and a shirt allegedly worn by one of the attackers pointed toward the Pan-Africanist Students' Organization, a wing of the Pan-Africanist Congress, which coined the motto "One Settler...
...spokesman for the Pan-Africanist Congress in Johannesburg reacted differently, calling the crime an "abominable terrorist act." Cape Town's A.N.C. director dissociated his organization from the murder, and his group's national executive moved to rein in its own members' use of racist rhetoric and inflammatory slogans. As if to underscore the emptiness of such pledges, gunmen firing assault rifles on Friday wounded eight people -- whites and mixed-race -- traveling by luxury-bus from Cape Town to Johannesburg...