Word: moth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ever-brightening comet Kohoutek. During their observations of Kohoutek, they have watched its tail double in length to more than 10 million miles. The science also had some light moments. In a radio conversation with his wife, Carr told her that some of the gypsy moth larvae that the crew had carried into space had finally hatched. "Good, you are a father again," replied the mother...
NORMAN MAILER has stopped off in Hollywood once more. That this notorious literary moth would fail to return and singe his wings on the spotlights was unthinkable. A man whose nerves are so attuned, ay, unsheathed of any protective tissue, to the vibrations of sex and power must have found it difficult to have stayed away for so long. The last time he left quietly, his reputation on the decrescendo, his powers drained after grappling with his third novel, he dragged his speeded out carcass back to Brooklyn, the first act of his life as a serious artist a closed...
...presence at the heart of the Watergate scandal. Since his precipitous fall from grace, however, other past colleagues have revealed glimpses of Dean's darker side. Some find him lacking in strong principles; others consider him overwhelmed by ambition. Declares one rather caustically: "He's a good moth. He knows how to find the light...
...soldier brother Jimmie (Paul Bradley) makes a play for Dollie late one beery night, Dollie leaves in a huff. He (Doug McGrath) turns to Jeannie, takes her and warns her to stay quiet about it. He and Jimmie return to the army the next day. Jeannie is pregnant, her moth er (Doris Petrie) hysterical, her father (Donald Pleasence) incensed. The father gets his best friend, a grizzled rummy named Sandy (Leo Phillips), to marry Jeannie and give her child a name. The actors are all stringently naturalistic, and Director-Writer William Fruet, setting his somber story in a provincial Canadian...
...size of the gap between rich and poor has been something less than a flaming issue simply because all levels of Americans are better off now than they ever have been. Even discounting for the moth holes left in everyone's dollar by inflation, real buying power for the average factory worker with three dependents has increased about 11% in the past decade and more than 29% since World War II. President Nixon argued during the campaign that "the people on welfare in America would be rich in most of the nations of the world today," and his line...