Word: golden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long as anyone can remember, villagers called it Tillya Tepe-the Golden Mound. Even so, no one dreamed of the precious relics that might be unearthed in the strange, 12-ft.-high rise of ground located in a cotton field three miles north of the town of Shibarghan in northern Afghanistan. In 1977 a Soviet-Afghan archaeological team began serious excavations. By last fall they had uncovered the mud-brick columns and cross-shaped altar of an ancient temple dating back to at least 1000 B.C. Then they struck pay dirt-a glittering trove of gold that some Soviets said...
...goes to bed with her ex from time to time. Estelle (Mary Beth Hurt), the most recently separated, is bewildered and scarcely able to cope with the enormity of the experience. An orphan who married an orphan, she had a glowing faith that building a nest would be the golden tie that binds forever...
Annabel, the flirtatious blond, ends up as a buyer for Bloomingdale's; Daphne, the Golden Girl, hides her epilepsy from her friends, marries a Harvard jock and has a mongoloid daughter; Chris, the shy romantic, marries a homosexual; Emily, the rich Jewish girl, dreams of med school and settles down as a doctor's wife...
...Belmont. Spectacular Bid tired and, as the horses moved to the top of the homestretch, veered wearily outside. Hernandez drove Coastal through the narrow opening on the rail, and the Belmont was theirs. Spectacular Bid faded, finishing behind second-place Golden Act. Coastal's victory earned $161,400 for California Owner-Breeder William H. Perry, and the payoff was especially sweet. Since Coastal had been unable to race until April, Perry had failed to nominate him for the Belmont and had been forced to ante up a last-minute supplemental entry fee of $20,000 to make his colt...
...shaping the image from which she never quite escaped. "Through my professional creations," she once said, "I became, in a sense, my own child." She was not permitted her first romantic screen kiss until 1927, 18 years after she came to the movies. When she cut off her long golden curls and bobbed her hair, flapper-style, a year or so later, it caused a national furor. "You would have thought I murdered someone, and perhaps 1 had, but only to give her successor a chance to live...