Word: moons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Paper Moon. Lots of tears wrung out of the story directed by Peter Bogdanovitch about the chumming up of a team as old and as wet as the thirties. Ryan O'Neal plays a con man who makes a fast-talking living by selling just-widowed, bereaved old ladies Bibles that he has personalized in gold on the covers after gleaning the victims' names out of the local want ads. His real-life daughter (Tatum O'Neal) is an 11-year-old tomboy, and a leech so tough that she pulls a quicker con over her big-mouthed but slow...
...Paper Moon. Lots of tears wrung out of the story directed by Peter Bogdanovitch about the chumming up of a team as old and as wet as the thirties. Ryan O'Neal plays a con man who makes a fast-talking living by selling just-widowed, bereaved old ladies Bibles that he has personalized in gold on the covers after gleaning the victims' names out of the local want ads. His real-life daughter (Tatum O'Neal) is an 11-year-old tomboy, and a leech so tough that she pulls a quicker con over her big-mouthed but slow...
...event overhead. The best view should be obtained by seven French, British and American scientists. On June 30, they will board a supersonic Concorde jet in Las Palmas, in the Canary Islands, fly south and intersect the path of totality near Chinguetti. Then they will race the moon's shadow across some 1,700 miles of Africa at nearly Mach 2 speeds (1,300 m.p.h.). Traveling at times only slightly slower than the shadow itself, they will see the blackout for some 80 minutes, longer than anyone has watched a total eclipse before...
...narrow strip of earth along which the shadow of the moon travels as the lunar disk completely obscures...
...Constantine, foolish male, has apparently never read The Golden Bough. He keeps poking into the secrets of Cornwall Coombe until the full moon at harvest time. He is in deeper trouble than he knows. "They call it the Moon of No Repentance around here," says the local matriarch. "Come harvest, you take what there is - too late for repentance . . . there are some hereabouts who don't take kindly to a man who makes fun at our ways...