Word: rimming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dictée, as every French schoolchild learns to his sorrow, is a dictation exercise full of traps for the unwary. Prosper Mérimée, author of the original Carmen, once offered a 248-word specimen as a test at the imperial court in Compiègne, and Napoleon III committed 75 errors. (Empress Eugènie made only 62.) Nothing much has changed since then in the stern regulations governing how the French teach their language to their children. Grading is fierce (more than five mistakes on a dictée bring a zero...
...twice and muttering "Dadgummit" as he struggled to rise. But his chagrin turned to excitement near a crater named Shorty (after a character in Richard Brautigan's novel Trout Fishing in America). Suddenly, as his space boots scuffed some of the gray topsoil from the crater's rim, he exclaimed: "Hey, there is orange soil. It's all over." Chugging toward him, Cernan shouted: "Well, don't move until I see it!" The astronauts' enthusiasm on the moon was shared by scientists watching in Mission Control's "back room." Caltech's Gerald Wasserburg...
...color, the vigor of handling, the expansive scale. Yet Francis, who moved to Paris in 1950 and took Europe as his ground (with much traveling in Mexico and the Orient, especially Japan), suffered the common fate of Homo transatlanticus: rebuked for his Frenchery, he was nudged to the outside rim of the Abstract-Expressionist hierarchy, so that to this day one rarely finds more than a few sentences about him in the official histories. Ten years ago he returned to the California coast where he was born, buying a house in Santa Monica that once belonged to Charlie Chaplin...
Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland and some colleagues spent the 1971 Christmas season touring military bases around the Pacific rim with what Miss Fonda called "a political vaudeville," a jaunty traveling cabaret intended to stand in marked contrast to Bob Hope's annual earsplitting chorus of Jingo Bells. This documentary is a record of the trip as well as a kind of pamphlet on celluloid, a tract against the war in Indochina and against the brutalizing and dehumanizing effects of military service...
...addition, the bill does not ban the sale of handguns by individuals, which is the way most criminals get their weapons in the first place. Finally, the bill includes an amendment repealing a provision of the 1968 gun-control law requiring that records be kept of anyone who buys rim-fire .22-cal. ammunition -a device enabling police to check up on criminal activity...