Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Robin Williams, the otherworldly star of ABC's Mark & Mindy. "He was a pleasure," says Willwerth, "shy, thoughtful, complex, deeply concerned with his art. He is most revealing when talking about the value of 'staying bozo' as a defense against the harsher realities of life on earth." Willwerth, however, almost came unbozoed when he accompanied the comedian to a yoga class, where Williams invited him to, well, look at the world from a different perspective. "Taking notes was impossible," jokes Willwerth. "The ink in my ballpoint pen wouldn't run uphill." The journalist now sees television...
...years." Brown urged Americans to "join together, not in the sterile games of Metternich clones who want to play chess with the countries of this planet, but rather in a politics that recognizes that the central concerns are in protecting this planet and unifying the peoples of this earth...
...almost always involves a rigorously ascetic ideal. Revolution, like religion, means faith and commitment, righteousness, intolerance, overriding goals, doctrine and ideology. In the revolutionary paradigm, the old order is corrupt, out of grace, godless, and therefore to be swept aside. Revolutionaries, of course, tend to seek their heaven on earth, here and now. But the contradiction between revolutionary dreams and religious yearning achieved at least a temporary resolution in Khomeini's Iran. Islam, after all, makes no distinction between the church and state, the secular and the sacred...
Last week, after a journey of 18 months, a tiny visitor from earth streaked precariously close to the giant of the solar system, penetrating deep into Jupiter's powerful magnetic field and coming within 278,000 km (172,400 miles) of the Jovian cloud tops. Back at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Lab, controllers waited breathlessly to see whether the plucky robot would survive that dangerous encounter. But even before Voyager 1 made its closest approach on Monday, the 826 kg (1,820 lb.) unmanned spacecraft sent home a trove of new findings about Jupiter, including evidence that...
...Amtrak passenger trains to save a few bucks," notes former White House speechwriter Pat Buchanan, "it approaches the obscene to demand that taxpayers triple their subsidy to this playpen of the penthouse proletariat." Never one for subtlety, James J. Kilpatrick says he "sees no reason on God's green earth for taking the taxpayer's money in order to nuture those happy hotdogs of the intellectual left who would love to get on the air and read their gaga poems at public expense." The commission characterizes public broadcasting as an "absolutely indespensable tool for our people and our democracy," adding...