Word: darknesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Diego suffered a terrible tragedy Sept. 25, when 144 persons died as a result of the collision of two airplanes [Oct. 9]. San Diego has generally been credited with responding marvelously on that dark day. However, a report of looting has haunted San Diego and marred that very positive story. It can't be determined where the original rumor started, but it apparently was repeated by police and news media alike. There is absolutely no evidence that any looting occurred at the crash site or in the immediate vicinity...
...summer of 1977, Newton figured that the political climate had mellowed enough for him to risk coming home. Three months later, the Panther Party was back in the police news. One night in October, three heavily armed men, dressed in dark blue jumpsuits and wearing black ski masks and gloves, started shooting through the door of a home in Richmond, Calif. The occupant, a black woman named Mary Matthews, 56, fired back with the .38-cal. revolver she kept by her bed. One man fell, killed by a burst of machine-gun fire-from behind. The two others fled...
MARRIED. Jaclyn Smith, 33, dark-maned heroine of TV's adventure series Charlie's Angels; and Dennis Cole, 38, actor; both for the second time; in Manhattan...
...self-made elitist. "I hate its guts." What better place for a man who loathes welfare statism than the century of the other Elizabeth? After decades of living in its atmosphere, Rowse tends to treat the Bard as an intimate. Others may puzzle over the identity of the Dark Lady of the Sonnets; Rowse is sure that she is Emilia Bassano Lanier, the half-Venetian wife of a court musician and "a bad lot." As for those who find evidence of homosexuality in the canon, Rowse dismisses them as "silly buggers. The idiots can't see that Christopher Marlowe...
...know some wonderful part will come," she announces with all the awed conviction of a child who knows that Santa will come for Christmas. Her anticipation is boundless when she begins to read a new script--"even the mimeographed sheets smell good." The dark eyes dance; one suddenly sees the little six-year-old who danced in her nightgown before that mirror...