Word: inventor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...resembles that of Mary Pearl, who is married to Charles Pillsbury. Joanie now has an identity that transcends the strip. She entered Berkeley law school after students at the university sent Trudeau an application in her name. "I've received so much mail addressed to Joanie," complains her inventor, "that my mother thinks I'm living with...
...around former President Richard Nixon, probably none was more hated than Chuck Colson, top hatchet man and tireless inventor of dirty tricks. There was a sense of national satisfaction when he pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice and served seven months in jail. Now, in a book to be published in mid-February, Colson, 44, tells how, in embracing evangelical Christianity, he learned the error of his ways-and of his fallen chiefs. Born Again (Chosen Books, a religious publisher) is an uncomplaining and contrite testament to the belief, renewed each generation, that power corrupts...
...guillotine is not French and was not named for its inventor. (The several-hundred-year-old device was merely advocated by Dr. Joseph Guillotin, who opposed the prevalent methods of torture and execution. After the Terror, Guillotin's family changed its name...
Splat Falls. Push Comes to Shove is the name of the ballet; its inventor is Choreographer Twyla Tharp. Last week it was unveiled by the American Ballet Theater at Manhattan's Uris Theater, and it just might be the most important event of the dance year. With cinematic speed, the cast of characters tumbles around the stage to the sounds of Haydn's 82nd Symphony. Isn't that Buster Keaton? There's Joe Namath and a courtful of jokers, heroes and heroines all. Linked by sheer velocity, the steps merge in combinations that are silly...
...successful patent lawyer and inventor, Rines has been engaged in scientific work ever since he and a few wealthy friends founded an organization called the Academy of Applied Sciences in 1963. The institution, which has no connection with any university or recognized research organization, is vague about its membership and seems to have financed little in the way of study on its own. An Academy member, Peter Byrne, has searched for the legendary Bigfoot. A New York lawyer has acquired an animal that some feel may even be Bigfoot. Michael Miller bought the creature, described as resembling "a bald chimpanzee...