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...Force Cot. Robert O'Brien, a Pentagon spokesman, said U.S. observers on the island of Diego Garcia reported seeing a "40-second burn" in the sky at 5:15 EST, six minutes before the satellite's main hulk rammed fully into the dense atmosphere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soviet Spy Satellite Falls Into Mid-Indian Ocean | 1/24/1983 | See Source »

Bridgette Bardot has finally found it. Not the perfect man (Mon Dieu, c'est im possible!), but something else that has al ways eluded her: the perfect role. After purring and pouting her way through countless films as the sultry femme fatale who could resist anything but temptation, Bardot has turned herself into another French institution, the wise and slightly world-weary philosophe. Voila! At 48, the sex object has become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Confessions of a Femme Fatale | 1/10/1983 | See Source »

After a 25-minute horseback ride around his moated ranch outside the capital, Figueiredo held a barbecue at which both the food (beef, veal, sausage and lamb) and recorded American music (Willie Nelson) were hearty, even macho. At Wednesday night's banquet, the clos est the trip came to conventional pomp, Reagan stood to offer an elaborately friendly tribute-and a faux pas at the end. "Now," he said, wineglass raised, "would you join me in a toast to President Figueiredo, to the people of Bolivia-no, that's where I'm going-to the people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yanqui on a Southern Swing | 12/13/1982 | See Source »

...English masse, festival mass, from Late Latin missa, eucharist, possibly deriving from phrases such as Itemissa est, "Go, it is the dismissal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Holidays 1010a. 'The Meaning of Christmas' | 12/8/1982 | See Source »

...week later, a three year-old local group called Spectrum Singers will hit a bit closer to the mark with William Byrd's "Hodie Christus Natus Est." (If you can't translate this one, anyone you hear practicing scales can probably help you out) Along with pieces by Bach and Mendelssohn, the Spectrum will also throw in a beautiful and often-performed Randall Thompson work called "Alleluia" (No translation problems here: The lyrics consist of one repeated word, and here's a hint--it's somewhere in the title...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Choruses and Carols | 12/8/1982 | See Source »

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