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Word: cleopatra (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unsteady young man named Charles (John Heard), is bonded. The other half has gone back to her husband. She is Laura (Mary Beth Hurt), a pretty and appealing but not very confident young woman who regards herself as quite ordinary. To the love-sotted Charles she is Cleopatra, and that is part of the problem. Each of them is unstrung, he by the crazy intensity of his love, she by his insistence that she is a marvel among women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rah! Rah! Rah!? | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...Kennedy Center for a preview showing of Tom Stoppard's play Night and Day, a woman approached him and said plaintively, "Please, don't let interest rates stay high for too long." Replied the Federal Reserve chairman, as he removed the cellophane from his 20? Antonio y Cleopatra Grenadier cigar: "We're trying our best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Where Is That Recession? | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...about every one of us is vitally affected by politics and the powers attendant upon it. This was true in ancient times and has remained so ever since. To explore the matter for his Elizabethan audiences, Shakespeare drew on Roman history for his Titus Andronicus. Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, and Coriolanus...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: A 20th-Century 'Julius Caesar'... ...an 18th-Century 'Twelfth Night' | 7/17/1979 | See Source »

...wore little more than a slip and a pout as Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and as the unhappy hooker Gloria Wandrous in Butterfield 8. In Cleopatra, her bangles and baubles barely covered the upper and lower regions of the Nile. What a costume change, then, for Elizabeth Taylor, in private life Mrs. John Warner, wife of the junior Senator from Virginia. Dutifully observing a 62-year-old Senate tradition she might understandably have skipped, Liz donned a Red Cross Gray Ladies' uniform and joined Mrs. Warren Magnuson of Washington and other Senate wives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 23, 1979 | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

...Seabury, which was the site of the Massachusetts Open two years ago, are over 200 yards. The third is an alluring 220-yarder, playing into the wind with water on the left and a view of Martha's Vineyard on the horizon. The hole proved Himelman's fatal Cleopatra when his tee shot dribbled into the water and he took a double bogey...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Golfers Sweep in Opener at Tough New Seabury | 4/13/1979 | See Source »

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