Word: exception
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sadat out of control, or was he acting fast and boldly to take charge of events that were outpacing him? "I will never bow except before the people of Egypt," he told a cheering throng of about 2 million in downtown Cairo, "and I will never kneel except before God." The crowd roared its approval as Sadat dismissed the rejectionists as "dwarfs" and promised to press on for a just solution of the Palestinian problem, despite the "ailing minds of some of the Palestinians." Sadat's trip to Jerusalem last month may have shattered Arab unity, but there...
...republic" of BophuthaTswana last week was singularly lacking in the kind of euphoria that independence rites usually inspire. The second of South Africa's nine tribal homelands to be granted "independence," BophuthaTswana (literally meaning "that which binds the Tswana") is not recognized by any country in the world except South Africa and another homeland, Transkei, which became independent last year. BophuthaTswana's creation was opposed not only by many South African blacks but also by much of world opinion. United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim last week said that he "strongly deplored" the establishment of "another so-called...
Cuisinart CFP-5A ($225) and CFP9 ($160). The French machine that popularized all processors. Little difference between the two models, except that the more expensive version has a steel base (v. plastic for the cheaper one) and is a little faster. Compact, versatile, durable...
...slave all week so that they can dress up and boogie on Saturday nights. Norman Wexler's screenplay focuses on the best dancer in the community, Tony Manero (Travolta), a paint-store salesman who still lives with his smothering family. Tony is ignorant of the world, narcissistic and, except on the dance floor, aimless. The film's story is about his tumultuous romance with another good dancer (Karen Lynn Gorney), a socially ambitious Manhattan secretary who teaches him that there is more to life than first prize in a hustle contest...
...Except, of course, for the dozens of model planes piled on top of a pinball machine in an unused bedroom. Built by a friend, the planes are mostly the vintage airliners Travolta saw from his window as a kid, dreaming that they would some day take him away from the humdrum of Englewood, N.J. There are old Lockheed Constellations, with their twin tails, and British Brittanias. But most of all there are sturdy little DC-3s, the workhorse of four decades. "It was the first true airliner," he says. "It depended just on people who wanted to pick...