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Word: cocoanuts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Above all, how in the world will I be able to describe how the earth looks after it has snowed for some time? How can I ever bring snow to the world of cocoanut grottos, hybiscus flowers and jasmin bushes? Words are woefully inadequate, I thought...

Author: By Mangalam Srinivasan, | Title: Reflections on the Blizzard | 3/14/1978 | See Source »

...face is familiar, but the melody -well, it just isn't right. Up on the stage of Los Angeles' the Now (formerly Cocoanut Grove), a nightclub thick with the ghosts of potted palms and a thousand big-name bands, Diana Ross makes her electric entrance, shimmering like a Broadway sign. She sports a frizzy Afro wig about the size of a boxwood hedge and a sequined sarong that looks as if it were cut from the Orion constellation. That's not the only star trip this lady is on. She seizes the microphone and leans into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Baby, Baby, Where Did Diana Go? | 8/17/1970 | See Source »

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