Word: crab
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Billed as "science adventures for curious grownups," Nova so far has looked to the skies to describe the distant Crab nebula and explain the pulsar, a kind of astronomical time clock that lies within it. The program has gone underseas for a scientific examination of dolphins and whales, resisting the temptation to Flipperize its subjects. It has even presented a fascinating inside look at the difficulties that a team of science-film makers encountered in making a nature film. Other shows will explain experiments with Washoe, a chimpanzee who has been taught to speak in sign language, and tackle...
...most successful of the rock comics are Richard ("Cheech") Marin, 27, and Tommy Chong, 33, an energetic Chicano-Chinese duo whose freakish cast of characterizations includes Sister Mary Elephant, Ashley Roachclip, and Buster the Body Crab. Their first two albums have sold 4 million copies so far, and their newest, Los Cochinos, jumped onto the pop charts at 22, a feat usually accomplished only by top rockers. But several others are stalking comedy's new-found rock audience in their wake...
According to present plans, Alcatraz will be operated as a tourist attraction only for the next five years. Ideas for its future use are solicited from the sightseers, who have suggested, variously, that it should eventually be turned into a West Coast Statue of Liberty, a crab farm, a U.N. memorial, a seminary, an Indian amusement park or a monument to the conquest of space. Some stern-vis-aged visitors think it should become a prison again, but others suggest simply giving it back to the pelicans...
...ratings turkeys. The New Perry Mason Show (CBS), with the bland Monte Markham in the old Raymond Burr role, has been sentenced to oblivion. At least two other shows face a doubtful future: Tenafly (NBC), with James McEachin as a black middle-class suburbanite who shuttles from kids and crab grass to detective assignments; and Faraday and Company (NBC), wherein Dan Dailey engagingly plays a private eye just home after 28 years in a Latin American jail on a trumped-up charge...
...small, rapidly spinning, incredibly dense neutron star (or pulsar) that gives off regularly spaced radio signals. Only four supernovas have been recorded in the Milky Way galaxy since the year 1000. The best-known one was witnessed by Chinese astronomers in 1054 and has since expanded into the famed Crab nebula; the last two took place within 32 years of each other around the turn of the 17th century...