Word: novas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fernández y Krohn, 33, Spanish priest of an archtraditionahst Roman Catholic faction who last May attempted to kill Pope John Paul II with a bayonet at Portugal's Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima; to seven years and one month in prison; in Vila Nova de Ourém, Portugal. The term includes seven months for contempt of court for disrupting his trial. At his sentencing he shouted, "Puppets! Assassins! Communists!" at his judges...
Jamie's responses 1 Sibley (Sibley): 2 Authority-manger (Not meeting my own standards), 3 Masterpiece Theater (Nova). 4 Air Force Pilot (Solon), 5 Tunisia (Tunisia...
Inside, the Queen reminded the 400 Americans that Britannia was essentially retracing a stretch of Sir Francis Drake's 1579 route up the Pacific Coast. He "claimed this territory as 'Nova Albion' for the first Queen Elizabeth," she said, "and 'for the Queen's successors forever.' " Smile. Pause. "I am happy, though, to give you an immediate assurance that I have not come here today to press that claim." (She failed to deliver the kicker that the Nova Albion/California natives at the time, utterly wowed by their godlike English visitor, lavished Drake with gifts...
Karaoke sets are being turned out by most of Japan's major electronics firms. One $4,000 top-of-the-line model includes synthesizers that can create a bossa nova or waltz beat, a computerized music memory system and two giant 5-ft. speakers. For $1,000 more, vocalists can add a small black box that grades their singing by scoring how well they stay on pitch and keep time with the beat of the electronic accompaniment...
...dean of the Yale School of Drama from 1966 to 1979, he installed a professional acting troupe that premiered such plays as Ted Tally's Terra Nova and Sam Shepard's Pulitzer-prizewinning Buried Child and trained performers as diverse as Meryl Streep and Henry Winkler. The company also tried some daffy updating of classics: the 1607 Revenger's Tragedy be came an essay on Viet Nam War protest, the witches in Macbeth came from a spaceship, and The Frogs of Aristophanes frolicked in a Yale swimming pool...