Word: cars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...your car is not working, stay in Boston and tune in the Midnight Special (Ch. 4, 1:00 a.m.). Among the musicians appearing are Lou Rawis, Rod Stewart, Harry Nilsson, and K.C. and the Sunshine Band...
...shacks and suburban pre-fabs just out of the ground with random incongruity. The paths have no names, few of the houses are numbered. This is an Indian village, changed, yet unchanged from centuries ago. Children play, dogs breed wild. Noises, the restless sea, the rush of a lonely car, wind. People are building...
...typical house is decorated with colonial furniture, plastic fruit, fluffy floral armchairs, commercial and authentic Indian crafts. The television forms the pulpit of the living room: children crowd around to absorb its technicolor wisdom. In the driveway is a small car, an old Honda Super Hawk; bicycles lie on the back lawn, dogs mope around the fear porch. Raymond Moore and his wife bake some bread in the kitchen. Mrs. Moore, looking fresh, models tight blue jeans and a printed t-shirt. A girl short-cuts through the back yard filled with dogs, wearing a "Smoke Colombian" t-shirt...
...when the Lufthansa skyjackers?apparently Palestinians, although their real names are still not known?proclaimed solidarity with West German terrorists who had kidnaped Industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer on Sept. 5. Within two days after the bold rescue mission, Schleyer's body was found in the trunk of an abandoned car in the French town of Mulhouse. In a warning to governments everywhere, his killers sent a message to the far-left Paris daily Liberation: "The battle has just begun...
...example, and avocados), taking pleasure in his successes ("That's profound," somebody says when God manifests his wisdom at one point; "Sometimes I get lucky," responds the deity). Called upon to prove his powers by changing the weather, he makes it rain only inside the skeptic's car, there being no point in spoiling everyone else's day. Asked about recent miracles, he lays claim only to the New York Mets' 1969 World Series victory. Mostly he dismisses matters of this kind contemptuously: "Special effects," he sniffs...