Word: seal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year-old civil servant-turned-writer concocted a tale about a wooden marionette and sold the first chapter to a children's newspaper, reportedly describing the story as "a little nonsense." By the 15th installment, the author was no longer harried by financial troubles and decided to seal his hero's fate by having him hanged by a devious fox and cat. But popular outrage quickly compelled him to create a lovely blue fairy who resurrected the boy puppet and guided his adventures through 21 more chapters...
Vura connected with Hall for touchdown bombs of 93, 84 and 40 yards, the last two bringing the Quakers back from a 22-14 disadvantage to seal...
...Phillips, spokesman for the San Francisco-based Friends of the Earth: "Human interference has already pushed the condor closer to extinction. It's inherently too risky." Maybe so. But William Conway, director of the New York Zoological Society, points out that captive breeding has already saved the elephant seal, down to 20 animals in 1890 and now back up to nearly 40,000. It has also helped raise the number of whooping cranes from 15 in 1941 to more than 100. "There is every reason to believe it will work with the condor," says Conway, "unless we wait...
Associate Editor Richard Corliss was 16 years old when a viewing of Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal in Corliss's native Philadelphia transformed a budding romance with film into a serious relationship. "I had grown up thinking of movies as something to eat popcorn with," says Corliss. "Bergman and the other European directors were the first ones to open my eyes to film as art." Though Corliss has since cut down on popcorn, his taste for movies has broadened to include "mass" as well as "class" films by directors in all parts of the world. His experience...
...vaudeville. During a crippling 1974 strike by municipal workers, Hizzoner was out there pitching garbage on a sanitation truck. When the new National Aquarium failed to open by the July 4 deadline he had guaranteed, Willie Don, as they call him, demonstrated his contrition by plunging into the seal pool (temperature 79°) in striped Victorian swimsuit and straw boater, clutching a yellow rubber duck (he is also affectionately known as Donald Duck). His penitential immersion was shared by a voluptuous model done up as a mermaid. Since he was the target of an assassination attempt by a deranged citizen...