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Word: capris (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the island was outside Government jurisdiction. The reefs, he pointed out, were beyond the three-mile limit of U.S. territorial waters. Ray claimed that international law allows anyone who discovers an oceanic island and colonizes it to proclaim it a sovereign country. Dubbing his new nation the "Grand Capri Republic," he made plans to "occupy and defend the area against all comers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ocean Law: Homesteading at Sea | 1/24/1969 | See Source »

Fritz's hobby seems to have been small boys. He transformed a Capri grotto into a scented Sodom, where attendants wore the habit of Franciscan friars and skyrockets were fired to celebrate orgasms. Photographs were taken and circulated. Eventually, reports of the goings on were published in the press. Kaiser Wilhelm rushed to the support of Fritz. But the scandal was too much, and Fritz committed suicide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Blood and Irony | 12/20/1968 | See Source »

What was George Hamilton doing holding hands with that long, leggy Texas model, Alana Collins, and making all those fun Italian scenes from Rome to Capri? "Alana and I are just very good friends," George explained. As a matter of fact, he added, she was helping him scout the latest fashions for the string of boutiques he is being forced to open in New York, California and Europe. Forced? Well, it's either that or let Uncle Sam dip heavily into all that money that he's being paid for The Survivors, his new ABC-TV series that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 13, 1968 | 9/13/1968 | See Source »

...WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.).* It Started in Naples. The tiny Mediterranean island of Capri is background for this 1960 romantic comedy, with Sophia Loren at her most briosa, Vittorio De Sica at his most simpatico, and Clark Gable at his usual most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jul. 5, 1968 | 7/5/1968 | See Source »

...Sardinia and fitted out with a real monkey, a real myna bird and real sitar-strumming Indians. But not real acting. And certainly not much real camp. About the only amusing scene in the film is the entrance of Noel Coward, a minor character known as the Witch of Capri, clad in a brown dinner jacket and riding pig-a-back on a servant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: Boom! | 5/31/1968 | See Source »

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