Word: chain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trouble broke out in Qum, where Khomeini, Sharietmadari and most of Iran's top Shi'ite leaders live. Several hundred Khomeini supporters gathered in the bazaar, shouting slogans against Sharietmadari, and then marched on his house. Among them were young men in black shirts, beating themselves with chain flails-the traditional Shi'ite expression of penitence...
...reached stardom early as teeny-bop's biggest rock idol and then moved smoothly into television acting on Sunday night's The Hardy Boys Mysteries, is 21. Bride Ann Pennington, a former Playboy Playmate who models in bouncy commercials for a Los Angeles men's clothing chain, is seven years older. But that gap mattered not to a romance that began 19 months ago when Cassidy spotted Pennington on the Hardy set. Nor to the groom's mother, Actress Shirley Jones, who was on hand to toast the couple following a quiet wedding at the Cassidy...
...publication of Darwin's Origin of Species not only changed the way Victorians thought, it altered the way they saw. Animals became part of the great chain of being and illustrators freshened their efforts to give birds and mammals moral characteristics. Perhaps the best and, ironically, the most obscure was Ernest Griset, whose influence can be seen in the works of such disparate artists as Beatrix Potter, creator of Peter Rabbit, and the whole phalanx of present-day New Yorker cartoonists. In Ernest Griset by Lionel Lambourne (Thames & Hudson; 88 pages; $8.95), even hints of Miss Piggy...
...want anybody to tell me how to run my place. If I feel like I should sell curry goat or short rib, they going to tell me no. I don't want to be a Pewter Pot." He doesn't want to accept orders from the manager of a chain, and he doesn't want the government to take charge of his business, either. "You work hard-hard and you get your money and you got to invest it, man! It's yours...
...Silver Wraith, the next step up, is $91,000, and the top of the line Corniche convertible sells for $140,000. It looks best in canary, with the camel interior. If the cars themselves are a bit out of your price range, you can give a Rolls-Royce key chain...