Word: finding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...skinning them alive. Nor is the annual gulf hunt, contrary to accusations, decimating the herd (although the limitless kill on the front is). Yet no matter how many explanations they make, Canadian officials are unable to quell the uproar for an elemental reason. Says one: "If we could find a way to make pup seals look like alligators, our problems would be over...
Ndongo tried to mount a golpe (coup) against Macias, who, at the time, was out of town delivering a series of tirades against Spanish "exploiters." Well aware that without Spanish financial aid (which runs to nearly $8,000,000 a year), Equatorial Guinea would find itself in serious difficulty, Ndongo moved into the President's office, after doing his best to assure himself of military support. The assurances proved illusory. As Macias now tells it, Ndongo became so frightened when Macias returned that he leaped from the office's window and broke a leg. Ibongo, also...
Berosus would have understood perfectly what Sheila was up to. Indeed, Sheila's astrological calculations would be one of the few things he would find familiar in the modern world after 50 centuries. It is one of the stranger facts about the contemporary U.S. that Babylon's mystic conceptions of the universe are being taken up seriously and semiseriously by the most scientifically sophisticated generation of young adults in history. Even the more bc.cult arts of palmistry, numerology, fortunetelling and witchcraft?traditionally the twilight zone of the undereducated and overanxious?are catching on with youngsters. Bookshops that cater...
...fortunetelling Tarot deck that stands for Man). "This is a very brilliant generation," says Kiyo, a young half-Japanese astrologer who works mostly among pop groups and folk singers. "They're interested in astrology because they've found the material things failing them, and they're trying to find their souls." In Manhattan, one of the brightest young astrologers is 28-year-old Barbara Birdfeather, who is writing a column for Eye magazine and draws private clients from the under...
...toward fanaticism: Director William Dieterle insisted on starting the shooting for one movie on a certain date, even though it had not been cast by that time. For the most part, like many astrologers, Righter does his best to couch everything?even the unpleasant?in positive terms. "If I find a strong indication, say, that someone is going to lose his job, I say: 'You know, nothing in life is certain. This is a period of change. Your chart shows that you have some interesting new beginnings, and if I were you I'd prepare for them.' " He also tries...