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Word: marguerita (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...festival's center, filled for ten days with a bizarre collection of European filmmakers, promoters, and journalists, was the Campo S. Marguerita, one of the friendly public spaces that suddenly open out of the city's alley-like streets into irregular areas of pavement edged with small cafes and trattoria, centered with a carved stone well-head that once furnished the neighborhood with water, and filled, in between, with the sleek, lurking cats that for some reason resemble fish, with kids kicking a soccer ball of the walls or, early in the day, with vegetable stands...

Author: By Phil Patton, | Title: Film in Venice | 9/24/1973 | See Source »

Police are still investigating many aspects of the case, and they have received 100 calls about missing girls in other areas. (The writings found in Schaefer's trunk also speak of the "executions" by hanging of girls named Carmen, Nina and Marguerita in an un specified Latin American country.) Prosecutors talk of making connections to more than 20 murders, but last week they filed their first formal charges: first degree murder in the deaths of Susan Place and Georgia Jessup. Schaefer, who will not complete his present jail term until mid-June, petitioned success fully for a series...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Bluebeard on the Beach | 5/28/1973 | See Source »

...manson and lieutenant calley, not to mention spiro agnew and the flowering of bread and roses. some of it is pretty funny, I'll grant you that, and some of it is even sweet, in the way only you can be sweet, (like sweet and sour pork or a marguerita) but in all honesty most of it is pretty tiresome. maybe it makes about as much sense as the rest of our lives over the last six years but maybe it makes less sense less well. it gets tiresome always to be in your dreams, dylan, and never to wake...

Author: By Elizabeth R. Fishel, | Title: A Fan's Notes Tarantula | 6/4/1971 | See Source »

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