Word: signs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...changing scene has brought new problems to Plains. At Walters' grocery store they posted a new sign: EFFECTIVE NOV. 1 ALL SALES WILL BE ON CASH BASIS ONLY. Sighed Mrs. Walters: "After 40 years in this store, things are changing. We have...
...transfer of power from the ruling white minority to the black majority. Despite the mutual suspicion and distrust that permeated the chamber, the fact that the four leading black nationalists and Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith, a white, were willing to meet at all was at least one encouraging sign. Said Conference Chairman Ivor Richard, Britain's United Nations ambassador: "The impossible has now become a matter of negotiation." From the beginning it was clear that the bargaining would be long and hard...
Small Arsenal. The first sign that Greece had become a channel for the gunrunners came earlier this year, when a small arsenal was discovered in the home of a promonarchist deputy of the New Democracy Party named Hippocrates Savvouras. Savvouras, who admitted that the illegal arms were his (Greece has a strict antigun law), was kicked out of his party. Two prominent members of militant Socialist Andreas Papandreou's Pan-Hellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) were also caught in possession of five Kalashnikovs and a rocket launcher. Both were tried and received suspended sentences...
Stevie Wonder's new Motown album, Songs in the Key of Life, took 26 months to produce. Last year Wonder took time out to sign the fattest contract in pop history (seven years and $13 million). The most eagerly awaited item of the year, Songs landed in the No. 1 position its first week on the charts. With sales already totaling a phenomenal 1.7 million, the album could well earn Motown most of its $13 million back before year...
...stem from his sensitivity to other people's sadness. These actors use each other deftly--dodging, fondling, intercepting and abusing one another's banter and bodies. The only remaining character, the Indian, functions as a mere punching bag, a prop that's hardly more human than the bus stop sign. His two-dimensionality is another flaw on the playwright's part, and about all Suchecki (who acts as well as directs) can do in this role is loiter on stage looking inane and pitiable...