Word: oceaneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...loud as Senator Henry Jackson or as brilliant as Senator Hubert Humphrey or as tough as House Democratic Caucus Chairman Phillip Burton. But he has a measure of real power in his committee chairmanship, and he talks quiet good sense in the ocean of babble. At 61 he looks 45, and he is three years along in a second marriage. He was once a high school teacher and then a builder. Now he is Baker, Ore.'s answer to Grand Rapids, Mich...
...also dim about what his methods of restraint were. "It's impossible to explain Sonny's hold on me," says Cher. "I was afraid of him; yet he never laid a hand on me. His powers of persuasion were enormous-as deep as the ocean. You just didn't argue with Sonny. We had no friends, went nowhere but to work. It was a very stultifying existence...
...recently as November 1974. Yasir Arafat "endorsed" binationalism by saying "Palestine is only a small drop in the great Arab ocean. Our nation is the Arab nation extending from the Atlantic Sea to the Red Sea and beyond." The Arab people have shown their "desires to live in peace" with minorities in the Middle East by systematically depriving minorities of their rights throughout the Arab world. One need only mention the Kurds and Jews in Syria, Greek and Coptic Christians in Egypt, Berbers in Algeria, and Assyrians in Iraq to recall the magnitude of this campaign of Arab subjugation...
Doubtless on the great anthropomorphic ocean every swell believes it self the wave of the future. But given present populations and food sources, Barkas' prophecy seems valid: the vegetable passion is no longer a joke. It is likely to gain adherents and political significance in the next decades. There may even come a day when it provokes books of vigor and practicality instead of green, leafy prattle. ∎Stefan Kanfer
...never lived by the ocean before," said Genevieve Bujold, 32. The French Canadian star is now living in a Malibu beach house with her son Matthew, 7, by her former husband, Director Paul Almond. Genevieve made her name in such French movies as La Guerre Est Finie and King of Hearts, but found that the Continent had its drawbacks. "Life there is just too difficult to cope with," she said. This month Genevieve must go to Italy to film Brian de Palma's Deja Vu, but she will come home to Malibu not Montreal. As she explained: "Scripts...