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...Guineans but it was a slight to them. Not so, said the council. Besides being pidgin, niugini is made up of two words taken from the most widely used Papuan dialect, Motu. True, answered Papua critics, but surely the council knew what the Motu words mean: niu is coconut, and gini is stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Pidgin up a Tree | 6/18/1973 | See Source »

...Clearly Now, was also reggae. Johnny Rivers' Rockin' Pneumonia-Boogie Woogie Flu is reggae, although, title to the contrary, his L.A. Reggae album lacks true reggae's eccentric upside-down shuffle beat. Three Dog Night's Black and White qualifies and Harry Nilsson's Coconut (1972) has a whiff of the island sound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Reggae Power | 4/30/1973 | See Source »

With so little time remaining before the scheduled unveiling date of May 29, speedy coordination between the City and the Kennedy Corporation over the design is necessary. Without this planning, the Kennedy Library will be just a collection of fond trivia -- a valentine from Caroline, a coconut shell from PT 109, an ivory model boat from Nikita Khrushchev -- within a Harvard Square disrupted by tourists clicking their Instamatics...

Author: By Andrew P. Corty, | Title: The Library Comes to Town | 4/26/1973 | See Source »

...British-made grenades slung from their belts. All were barefoot, but a few wore red headbands that lent their otherwise raggle-taggle appearance a sort of rakish ferocity. Their leader - a slight young man with a goatee and darting eyes - identified himself as Usham Ambihal, 28, a former coconut-farm laborer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: The Rebels: I Learned It from the Movies | 4/16/1973 | See Source »

...stream. "How long have you been fighting the government?" I asked. "Seven years," he answered. "I killed a government officer who tried to take away the land I was squatting on." As our boat moved away, he faded into the idyllic setting of blue waters, golden shores and swaying coconut trees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: The Rebels: I Learned It from the Movies | 4/16/1973 | See Source »

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