Word: peacock
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bathrooms, peachy lighting, a buttery floor, music they can talk over or sing to. Some people take care to dress the part, the men in black tie, the women in suede-bottom shoes and vintage gowns, or handmade black taffeta Gay Nineties skirts set off with antique purses and peacock feathers in their hair...
Shawcross briskly recounts the Shah's decline and fall, from the first wobbles of the Peacock Throne to the restrained dash to the airport with Queen Farah Diba, their entourage and pets. But unlike luckier deposed billionaires, the Shah did not have a soft landing. He had cancer and was coming down with an acute case of political leprosy. Switzerland, France and Britain, concerned about oil and terrorism, rolled up the welcome mat. Despite entreaties by the Rockefellers, who handled the fallen Shah's finances and provided him with a live-in public relations man, and Henry Kissinger, President Jimmy...
...gold peacock banners fluttered over much of Burma last week, symbols of a national student movement that had become an uprising. Once again, hundreds of thousands of protesting citizens poured into the streets of major cities in a concerted effort to bring down the tottering government of the ruling Burma Socialist Program Party (B.S.P.P.). To a large extent they had already succeeded. Burma's second largest city, Mandalay, was under the control of Buddhist monks: saffron-robed holy men, known as sanghas, were directing traffic. In Rangoon, the capital, the entire civil service had deserted the government. A new opposition...
Three-pointers: Duncan, Keffer. Rebounds: Yale42 (Lawrence 14); Harvard 41 (Duncan 12). Assists:Yale 21 (Spolyar, Peacock 6); Harvard 14 (Kosh 4).Fouled out: Kenefick. Total fouls: Yale 17,Harvard 11. Technical fouls: Yale Asst. Coach SueJohnson. Turnovers...
However, Harvard's defensive pressure forced Yale into several turnovers, and the Crimson pulled to within two at the half, 26-24. The Bulldogs turned the ball over 20 times in the game, including six by point guard Anne Peacock...