Word: rods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...study of the generation gap. What Jonson was writing about was not the pursuit of money, but power and the manipulation of human failings. Volpone is not only the most avaricious man who ever walked across a stage; he is also the most cynical. He has an infallible divining rod for everyone's weakness-and most especially...
...Hitler's Third Reich.* As the shocked, uprooted prisoners arrived by rail at Auschwitz, Mengele, always impeccably turned out in a dress SS uniform, was the first person they saw. Placing himself between the rows of incoming prisoners, he decided their fate; a flick of a thin metal rod, held by a white-gloved hand, to the left meant immediate death in the gas ovens; to the right meant life-but what a life. Most of the prisoners would survive for only a few more weeks, doing hard labor on starvation rations or serving as guinea pigs...
...strange initials on Britt Ekland's jacket? "R.S.G. stands for Rod Stewart Gone," shrugs Britt, 34. The Swedish-born actress and the British rock star once swore "faithfulness to each other in mind, body and soul." Alas, some other pretty face came along and faithfulness fled. Now, on grounds that "he became a superstar with my aid," Britt is suing Rod, 32, for $5.25 million -believed to be half his assets -and another $10 million in punitive damages...
...next passed right by the offensive line with hardly a sound. Maybe he didn't want to say nuthin', but he didn't have to, 'cuz even I knew that Bruce McKinnon and Mike Clark were back, which is two more guys than was back in '76, and even Rod Carew, you know, the baseball guy, would take two for five and not hassle...
...motorists, but NBC quickly saw the problem with that title.) Daniel Boone is back, or rather Young Dan'l Boone. This time he is 25 years old and accompanied by a runaway slave and preteen sidekick on his wilderness walks for CBS. For long-neglected horse opera fans, Rod Taylor will bit The Oregon Trail as a pioneer plodding west for NBC, Big Hawaii will go even farther west on NBC-to Paradise Ranch, where a cantankerous family of cattle ranchers haggle over their island Ponderosa...