Word: moone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rain as early as five o'clock, and many were showing the signs of a "heightened awareness" by then. The gentleman to my left, for example, who had shaved half his head and tied what was left of his hair into a ponytail, crooned continuously about the moon melting and the pavement swelling. When the police made a move as if to open the doors, the mob pressed together so closely that someone's elbow forced my camera to take a picture of the inside of my poncho. For more than half an hour everyone struggled to breathe...
Eastern Air Lines President and Chairman Frank Borman, who commanded the U.S.'s first mission around the moon, exhorted his fellow executives to be even more conservation minded. "I am the only one here," he said, "who had the opportunity of viewing the world from 240,000 miles out in space, and I know how small it looks." As an industry at the mercy of both soaring fuel costs (kerosene, which cost 8? to 10? per gal. in the late 1960s, may rise to 70? in the mid-1980s) and scarce capital for new equipment, the airlines must conserve...
...bedroom is nothing less than rococo. The spirit of Mardi Gras inhabits the game room. But the soul of Malibu's newest $800,000 mansion lies in its bathroom. "I thought it only appropriate to cover the walls with rocks," smiles The Who's millionaire drummer, Keith Moon, 30. "The house does belong to a rock star...
...magazine cannot conceive of anyone placing a tangerine pool table around the corner from a mirrored King Henry VIII fourposter. Bergère ottomans never should be buffeted by the whizap of a Death-Race Videogame. But when one has money, things bizarre are described, politely, as eclectic. Says Moon: "It's just a quiet place to escape the madness, a little English manor house with modern conveniences...
...garden and a warehouse or so of rare French glass. The giants of celluloid are being ousted slowly by kids who make their millions in vinyl. The endangered superstars do not always accept the transition easily. Steve McQueen planted a little forest of protective saplings when he heard that Moon was to be his new neighbor. Moon promptly jumped his motorcycle over the side fence and tore up McQueen's guard trees...