Word: lana
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to an old saw, if a chimpanzee is allowed to punch the keys of a typewriter at random for a long enough time, it will eventually peck out Hamlet. Lana, a playful three-year-old female chimpanzee at Emory University's Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center, will never accomplish that feat, but she is already one up on the hypothetical chimp. Under the tutelage of the center's scientists, Lana is rapidly learning how to read and write in a brand-new language called Yerkish...
...Beautiful, Vincente Minnelli directs Kirk Douglas and Lana Turner, 1952, Channel...
Divorced. Lou Rawls, 39, onetime gospel choirboy whose charcoal-blue ballads, particularly Love Is a Hurtin' Thing, were among the first soul songs to hit the top of the pop charts in the '60s; by Lana Jean Rawls, 31; after twelve years of marriage and two children; in Los Angeles...
...movie Lady in the Dark. At MGM he enjoyed a seven-way contract that made him dancer, choreographer, costume designer, set designer, producer, director and actor. He later opened a Sunset Strip couture house from which he clothed some of Hollywood's most famous women-including Marlene Dietrich, Lana Turner, Claudette Colbert-for prices up to $25,000 a dress...
...bubbled Alexis Smith to Lana Turner, "it's so sentimental and sweet. Just like the days of the Hollywood Canteen." With one exception, perhaps. At the World War II canteen, movie stars used to serve coffee and dance with G.I.s on leave, but now, Bette Davis remarked, "men don't dance any more." That said, Bette spent most of the evening on the dance floor, explaining, "I just dance. I don't know what the dance is, but then I've never known." Jane Russell knew: she led a lurching conga line through Manhattan...