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Word: michel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tide. Apparently, the moon was communicating with the oysters in some language as yet inaudible to man. Japanese Dr. Maki Takata found that the composition of human blood changes in relation to the eleven-year sunspot cycle, to solar flares and sunrise, and during eclipses. French Science Writer Michel Gauguelin foresees a new science of astrobiology, which could vindicate the intuited conclusion of the ancients that extraterrestrial forces affect human life, and at the same time explode the anachronistic conglomeration of myth and magic cluttering up modern astrology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Astrology: Fad and Phenomenon | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

...plot is the sort of thing that gives science fiction a bad name. A writer (Michel Piccoli) and his mute wife (Catherine Deneuve) live in an abandoned fort on the coast of Brittany. She is pregnant; he is trying to write. Gradually, he conceives a weird fantasy about a mad engineer who plants control devices on the populace to destroy their free will. Reality begins to blur as the mad engineer invites the writer to sit down at an enormous electronic chessboard on which the townspeople are the pieces and the prize is the wife's fate. Writer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: . . . And Hers | 3/14/1969 | See Source »

...proposition. To create a character an actor asks, "If I am Hamlet and I discover that my uncle killed my father, then how will I react?" Unfortunately, the actors and director at Leverett House do not use sufficient imagination and, understandably, have not known enough of life to make Michel de Ghelderode's A Night of Pity palatable...

Author: By Deborah R. Waroff, | Title: The Dollar Theatre | 3/8/1969 | See Source »

Hobbs has been playing number three for Harvard since he regained eligibility in February, and he has yet to lose. Gonzales has been at the fifth spot most of the season, but beat Michel Scheinmann in a challenge match to earn the fourth position...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Nayar Seeks Squash Title | 3/7/1969 | See Source »

...number four, Michel Schienmann concluded his career with a sensational comeback victory 11-15, 15-11, 9-15, 16-13, 15-6. Fernando Gonzales and John Ince at five and six, both won easily...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Racquetmen Beat Elis And Stay Champions | 3/4/1969 | See Source »

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