Word: cornelius
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That sense of alienation is magnified by the fact that even teachers and school administrators are leaving the city. About half of the whites-who make up about 60% of the teaching body -live in the suburbs. "At my children's school," says School Board President Cornelius Golightly, "the principal couldn't come to our P.T.A. meeting one night because he was looking after his own P.T.A. in Oak Park...
Lovely, rich Amanda Burden, 28, of New York's Beautiful People, filed last June for divorce from City Councilman Carter Burden, descendant of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt. But with a jet-setter's impatience, Amanda flew off to Sun Valley, Idaho, where the ritual takes a mere six weeks. The change prompted gossip-column wonderings about a romance with Senator Edward
...antics of a Booth Tarkington imagined era can be very thin. When the older clerk in miser Vandergelder's store convinces the junior employee that they should each kiss a girl on their secret daylong journey from Yonkers into New York, the boy protests. "I'm thirty-three," says Cornelius. "I've got to begin sometime." "I'm only seventeen," Barnaby retorts: "It isn't so urgent for me." It's an aptly humorous exchange. But when Barnaby does receive a kiss, the stage directions call for him to spin around and fall on his knees...
...last episode, you remember, Zira and Cornelius, the egghead chim- panzees who had come back from the year 3000 via a time warp, were hunted down and killed by their human hosts, who were frightened by the prospect of a future world run by apes. In the next installment, to be released later this month, the chimpanzees' destiny is fulfilled anyway, as Zira and Cornelius' son Caesar leads a revolt of the simians, who begin to build their own civilization and await the arrival of Charlton Heston. the famous astronaut whose visit was described in Episode 1 . . . Anybody...
Spartacus. Says Roddy McDowall, 1who played Cornelius in two of the movies and who plays the simian Spartacus in the upcoming one: "Now I know why monkeys hate people. When I get dressed up that way, everybody stares and points and yells, and you have no identity. You feel helpless...