Word: draculas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...purge while some 1,000 exiled military men may yet galvanize a disgruntled populace into another coup. But no one can be sure that a change of power would restore democracy or prosperity to Suriname. As Chin A Sen says, "We don't want to replace Frankenstein with Dracula." - By Pico Iyer. Reported by William McWhirter/ Paramaribo
...work of children's author illustrator Maurice Sendak. Really Rosie inflates and links the sparse content of three or four Sendak sketches in an insultingly arbitrary attempt at narrative. How, after all, could one write a script realistically incorporating. "Chicken Soup with Rice," an alphabet song, a Dracula sequence, and the saga of I Don't-Care Pierre? And why would anyone really want...
John Updike is one of my favorite writers, but obviously I am not one of his favorite artists. When I painted him for the 1968 TIME cover, he thought I put his teeth in upside down and made him look like Dracula. Now I am happy to find my work immortalized in his poetry...
...Pratt & Whitney jet engines. Since then, he has expanded by buying several firms, including Otis Elevator in 1976 and Carrier, the air-conditioner manufacturer, in 1979. Over the years, Gray's opponents have reportedly called the slow-speaking but fast-moving Georgian a robber baron, a buzzard, Dracula, Jack the Ripper and King Kong. Few of his takeover thrusts have been thwarted, however...
...year high of 9.8%, it was not particularly happy with Jimmy Carter in the White House either. In 1980 Carter got labor's nod, but after the election, AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland urged that his federation change its political approach to avoid facing "a choice between Dracula and Frankenstein." Last week the AFL-CIO moved to prevent a horror show...