Word: nut
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...another likely target city, New York, the FBI and local police have established joint contingency plans to deal with terrorist attacks. Nevertheless, says an FBI official, "a determined nut can do great damage before you can neutralize him." For example, four men and two women said to be members of a terrorist group known as the United Freedom Front were able to set off ten bombs in military-reserve centers and corporate facilities in the New York City area before they were apprehended. The group was finally convicted of multiple conspiracy and bombing charges in federal court last month...
...only for fans of the Andy Griffith Show, which ran on CBS from 1960 to 1968 (when Griffith left, and the show was transmuted into Mayberry R.F.D.) but for the reassembled cast. "It's been wonderful seeing all the old friends," said Nabors, 52, who now tends a macadamia-nut farm in Maui between occasional singing engagements. "It's like a family that we all grew up with." Commented Griffith, 59, who has appeared in numerous series and TV movies since the Mayberry days: "It's like we finished the old show on Friday and started this one on Monday...
...bitterly sardonic in their attacks on society after it. These artists rehearse the last phase of the exaltations and terrors of German romanticism. They are seen, by all but a tiny minority of Germans, as mad, bad and dangerous to know: frantic orphans of the fatherland, nut eaters, Nietzscheans, stargazers, communards, Spartacists, reciting overloud yeas to nature and nays to society. Among them are Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Franz Marc, Emil Nolde and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, George Grosz and Otto...
Others see inherent limitations in the philosophy of change. Says Area's Dolce, "We will always change--but even change becomes static." Dolce insists that a nightclub "is a very ephemeral thing," adding defiantly: "Only a severe nut-case would want to enter a field of work like this...
...science nut or want to be reminded that you are in an coastal state, try either the Museum of Science (Science Park) or the Aquariam(Central Wharf). At the museum, don't miss the electricity show with world's largest Van de Graffe generator to make hair stand on end. There are a whole lot of other neat exhibits on everything from the space program to wave mechanics and blood pressure. The Aquariam boasts a huge, four-story-high fish tank with sharks, sea turtles, moray eels, tarpons, spotted eagle rays, and other fun sea creatures. Even if you decide...