Word: lighters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...intervened again to accelerate the pace of evolution. Since the passage of smoke-control laws in the 1950s, England's landscape has begun to emerge from its layers of soot. The cleaner trees thus provide a lighter-and safer-resting place for any surviving speckled moths...
...expansively, like a magician, opened the box, and took out a butterfly, which he held by one wing. He did this three times, each time very slowly. So the audience might be jarred to understand. Then, holding the box in one hand, he flourished the other and pulled a lighter out of a pocket. He held it up, slowly raising...
...real brave and shout "Don't," but it would still happen, and they would have the narcissistic satisfaction of having protested the act. Once, and it must have been a spectacular moment, many in the audience must have been shaking, a man leapt from his seat as the lighter moved toward the butterfly, and beat the magician to the floor...
Mile. Helene (Stephane Audran) is the attractive schoolmistress in the placid provincial town. She befriends the local butcher Popaul (Jean Yanne) at a wedding feast and later presents him with a cigarette lighter. But their tranquil country life is disrupted by a taste of urban terror: a girl's body is found horribly mutilated. Soon another grisly murder is committed; this time Helene discovers the body while on a picnic with her students. Next to the body is a lighter that appears to be Popaul's. Helene finds herself I caught in a maelstrom of dark violence...
...both relieved and delighted that Correspondent Robert Anson has been released after 21 days as a captive of anti-government forces in Cambodia. Fifteen pounds lighter, thanks to the largely rice diet, but none the worse for wear, Anson arrived early last week in Phnom-Penh, where he was soon reunited with his wife Diane. From there, the couple flew to Saigon for a festive gathering with members of the Saigon bureau and Time-Life News Service Chief Murray Gart, who flew in from Europe via Tashkent. Gart arrived with champagne, a tin of caviar and a bottle of vodka...