Word: curtain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have been commandeered by passengers and diverted to Western or neutral airports. No plane has yet been hijacked from the Soviet Union, however, probably because Russian crews have shown a willingness to use firearms to stop them. Nearly all of the hijackers have sought political asylum outside the Iron Curtain. In the midst of the search for ways to prevent sky piracy, their arrival has posed a painful question for non-Communist governments: Is there ever any legitimate excuse for hijacking an airliner...
Elliott's father, Bernard Goldstein, had been a Broadway paper boy back in the old days when Eddie and Ida Cantor would come over after the final curtain of Whoopee at the New Amsterdam to buy a copy of the morning edition...
...polluted air hung like a filthy muslin curtain along the entire Atlantic Coast, from Boston south to Atlanta. Because of unusually stagnant winds and humid heat in the high 90s, Washington, D.C., was on the verge of the first smog alert in the capital's history. The hardest hit of all U.S. cities was New York (see following story), which declared a first-stage pollution alert and simultaneously reeled under a severe power shortage...
...much remarked Alka-Seltzer commercial. She grew up-or at least to 4 ft. 10½ in.-in Brooklyn's Flatbush and in Queens. Dance classes at the Metropolitan Opera Ballet School led, at the age of eleven, to a singing role in Wozzeck, a solo curtain call and a New York Times review commending the "crushing irony and pathos" of her performance. At twelve, she was on Broadway in Gypsy. Then followed Oliver...
Identity Transplant. For Blum, the dark powers are impenetrable bureaucracies, military cabals and value-neutral scientists on both sides of the ideological curtain. He sees them as threatening to rob men's souls by corrupting their memories and feelings...