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DIED. Gale Sondergaard, 86, character actress of stage and screen who specialized in sleekly villainous roles, most memorably as the sinister Spider Woman in two movies (1944 and '46), and who won a supporting-actress Oscar for Anthony Adverse (1936); in Woodland Hills, Calif.
He cropped up anywhere and everywhere: aboard an airliner after takeoff from Athens; on the bridge of a Mediterranean cruise liner; in a downtown street in San Salvador; and last week at crowded air terminals in Rome and Vienna. Wherever he appeared, his victims, if they were not murdered outright...
To protect Maori from the onslaught of English, the Language Commission has created new terms for hundreds of modern concepts (for electricity it chose hiko, or unseen power; computer is rorohiko, electric brain). Most Maori speakers, though, learned English as their first language. And when their Maori vocabulary comes up...
This time, the civics lessons were more muted - though, sure enough, some viewers of Revenge of the Sith argued that the rise of the sinister Chancellor Palpatine, who gains unlimited power by lying to the Senate about an imminent military threat from a nonbelligerent force, was analogous to the actions...
For the second time in a decade, energy scare stories have become the stuff of headlines: motorists who confront the prospect of a summer of gasoline shortages at $1 per gal.; homeowners who have visions of dollar bills fluttering up the chimney every time the oil burner in the basement...