Word: hoppers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hand," nice young Jeffrey (Kyle MacLachlan) tells his nice young friend Sandy (Laura Dern). Well, yes. Walking through the woods of peaceful Lumberton, Jeffrey found a severed human ear crawling with ants. The ear belonged to a man who, with his son, had been kidnaped by Frank (Dennis Hopper), a sicko on a helium high. Frank was blackmailing the man's wife Dorothy (Isabella Rossellini), and hiding in Dorothy's closet, Jeffrey watched Frank work his awful sexual will on her. When Dorothy discovered Jeffrey, she took him to bed. "Hurt me," she said. "No, I want to help...
Aboard the Constitution, the Navy's oldest commissioned warship, the Navy's oldest officer on active duty retired last week. In 1943 Grace Murray Hopper, then an associate professor of mathematics at Vassar College, joined the reserves, and while developing an early computer program, coined one of computerese's most useful terms when she found a moth in the machine. "From then on," she recalled, "whenever anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it." After the war, told she was too old for active duty, she went to work on UNIVAC, the first large commercial...
With a runner standing on second and two down, third baseman Lisa Rowning--Lora's older sister snagged a hot one-hopper down the line and ended the threat with a perfect throw to first...
...Nebraska, organized farm workers in California, fought against fascism in Spain and played the black market in Paris. There he met Ilsa Lund (Ingrid Bergman), a language teacher and daughter of a bankrupt Swedish count, who will survive the war to subtitle Ingmar Bergman films, model for Edward Hopper and become Dag Hammarskjold's assistant. She died with the Secretary-General of the United Nations in 1961 when their plane crashed in Africa. Blaine, a probable alcoholic and possible homosexual, died in 1949. He had lived in Marrakech with Louis Renault. Meanwhile, at The Maltese Falcon, Casper Gutman and Joel...
...security police, once preached and now lies buried. This time there was no violence. They marched for almost two hours until riot police blocked their progress. On Friday the Polish government expelled two American diplomats, William Harwood, a first secretary of the U.S. embassy in Warsaw, and David Hopper, the consul in Cracow. The diplomats, accused of participating in a protest outside Cracow, insisted they were merely observers. In retaliation, Washington expelled four Polish diplomats...