Word: graying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...restaurant, a handsome, prematurely gray lawyer, Edward Pell, is enduring a meal of fried chicken and french fries. Pell lives in Greene, Rhode Island but comes to New Hampshire "five or more times a year." His interest in politics is greater than normal because he is a cousin of Rhode Island's Democratic Senator, Claiborne Pell. Surely he has encountered some of the politicking, or heard a lot of talk about...
...CHINA SYNDROME Directed by James Bridges Screenplay by Mike Gray and T.S. Cook, and James Bridges...
Hans Tobeason's lighting helps to transform the entr'actes and set changes into complements of the action. In these transitions, the lights shade from lavender to deep blue to gray, mirroring the emotional metamorphoses from...
...SCENE: St. Andrews University Scotland, during a typically damp, gray Scottish summer in 1974. Having bribed their parents into sending them to Europe by promising to study at a university, 200 American high school students were sitting in a lecture hall awaiting another lecture on British politics. Past lectures given by members of different political parties, cabinet ministries and interest groups had been nowhere near as exciting as the non academic hours the students had spent exploring Macbeth's Glamis castle and the romantic lochs. But the students quickly realized that this lecture would be different...
North America's last solar eclipse of the century (right) was obscured by a cold gray cloud cover along much of the path of totality. But eclipse buffs near Roundup, Mont, (left), and other viewing areas in the U.S. Northwest and Canada were luckier. Armed with telescopes, cameras and other paraphernalia, they let out joyful whoops under mostly clear skies as the moon's shadow raced toward northern Greenland. It was an all too brief show-as long as 2 min. 36 sec. in Helena, Mont., less than a minute elsewhere-and a rare one. It will...