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Word: dorp (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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After this, the plot coils around the characters like a boa constrictor and embraces the audience in fun and terror. One of the subsidiary characters is Helga ten Dorp (Marian Winters), a psychic who prophesies events with a certain deadly inaccuracy. Winters makes her the most consumingly droll zany since Mildred Natwick, as Mme. Arcati, had close encounters with a nether world in Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Scalp Tingler | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

...ideal lawn mower would be one that makes no noise, consumes no gasoline, emits no noxious fumes, does not rust when left out in the rain-and besides all that, is self-starting and fertilizes grass while cutting it. Anette van Dorp, 22, an enterprising agriculture student in Bonn, West Germany, concluded last year that such a machine already exists-only it is called a sheep. So she persuaded her mother Doris, the wife of a prosperous architect, to lend her $15,700, and last spring set up an ewe business named Gesellschaft fur Schafsverleih (free translation: Rent-a-Sheep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Combleat Mower | 5/24/1976 | See Source »

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