Word: palmful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...offered both of us another pina colada. Beneath us the sun played on the Caribbean and then, in front and to the left, the atoll appeared, light green in the distance and rimmed by a pink ribbon of unbroken beach. The light green below resolved into hundreds of gangling palm trees. I smiled at my friend and leaned back for the landing. This, I thought, is air hitchhiking...
...confidently squeeze your opponent's clammy palm, slam it to the table and gulp down your milk...
...celebrate what she says have been "the most beautiful years of my life," Hungarian-born Jolie Gabor, seventyish, invited 300 of the "beautiful, elegant people of Palm Springs" for a little get-together. The occasion: the 20th anniversary of her marriage to Manhattan Jeweler Edmond de Szigethy, ten years her junior. Jolie's daughters were there, of course: Eva, who has had five husbands so far, Zsa Zsa, seven, and Magda, six. Jolie, who found contentment on her third try, sighs that the girls will not listen to her advice, namely, that "they don't have to marry...
...Franco Zeffirelli's Jesus of Nazareth, created not for the movies but for television. For sheer spectacle and expense ($18 million), nothing like it, religious or otherwise, has ever been attempted on TV. The two-part film will fill three hours of prime time on NBC on both Palm Sunday and Easter,* and it is well worth viewing. Director Zeffirelli, an Italian and a Roman Catholic, has brought to the project a rare combination of religious sensitivity and film expertise (Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew). Novelist Anthony Burgess has written an intelligent script, and the notable...
...Kennedy family and his one-time post in the Kennedy White House. Steven S.J. Hall, Bok's first vicepresident for administration, displayed an extraordinary inability either to get along with the faculty or to keep his mouth shut. Generally, Hall would dream up a new costsaving procedure like using palm-print bursar's card checking machines for the dining halls, and casually tell a reporter about it before consulting with anyone else. But Champion's projects went through, and he knew how to move quietly through the University...