Word: pens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thoughtful in the '80s -- they accompany girls to their abortions." Postcards, which is really five connected vignettes, loses its bite when it strays from its emotional base in the clinic. But not before Fisher, who once expected to be remembered only as Star Wars' Princess Leia, proves that the pen is mightier than the light-saber...
...July on a tidal creek among Georgia's coastal islands, six people ceremoniously untied the gates of an underwater pen that for the previous 28 days had contained two very civilized bottle-nosed dolphins. The finny pair disappeared from view. Moments later they surfaced upstream, defying predictions that they would not voluntarily leave behind the comforts of captivity. Overcome, one observer broke into tears. Wild dolphins might roam 50 miles daily, but this pair had spent seven of their eight years in cramped enclosures...
California, as always, is someplace else again. Donating its services, Walt Disney Productions has created a mascot for the state's celebrations, Bisontennial Ben: a bison carrying a quill pen, just right for signing important documents. "We are making the Constitution user-friendly," says Peter Paul, executive vice president of the California Bicentennial Foundation, speaking in the argot of Silicon Valley. "We have taken California innovation and creativity and directed them to selling an important message...
...cranked out the 85th and last in May 1788, after Jay had fallen too sick to write and Madison had decamped for Virginia to fight the ratifying battle there. "Whilst the printer was putting into type parts of a number," Madison recalled, "the following parts were under the pen...
...done for me." His surviving fellow passengers do not strike Talbot as promising heroes or heroines for his second installment, nor do any of the more prominent naval officers in charge: dour Captain Anderson or the affable but proper First Lieut. Charles Summers. The journal keeper takes up his pen with scant inspiration: "There is no story to tell...