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Word: solee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...large, rather charmingly antique-looking space vehicle parked near it with its lights out. The men of the former craft are absolutely basic: one stalwart captain, one joky copilot, one overdedicated scientist, one slightly shifty civilian and one pretty lady whose function is to be placed in jeopardy. The sole proprietor of the ship they run into is Maximilian Schell, a great long-lost scientist whose ego trips are as monumental as his space voyages and who is, indeed, quite round the bend. His crew are all robots, though some of them were human before he started doing these terrible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Space Opera | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

...Foreign Minister and Premier under Park and became Acting President after the killing, was chosen as his country's new head of state by a 96% majority of the 2,560-member electoral college called the National Conference for Unification. Though Choi (rhymes with jay) was the sole candidate and is nominally able to serve the five years remaining in Park's current term, there were signs that he wanted to limit his tenure in Seoul's presidential Blue House and lead the country's transformation to a genuine democracy. In an acceptance statement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH KOREA: Park's Man Takes Power | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

...Katie Maloney St. Louis I enjoyed the shoeless Jane Byrne. The picture reminded me of Adlai Stevenson with the hole in his sole. She not wanting to wear hers out, he not wanting to waste money having his repaired-my, aren't our politicians frugal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Iran's Revenge | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

Soon thereafter, The Black Stallion's real story begins, and so do the movie's difficulties. The young hero Alec (Kelly Reno) and the black stallion, sole survivors of the wreck, are washed up on a deserted and terribly picturesque beach. There they carry out a lengthy and teasing courtship that manages to merge the sentimentality of Lassie with the homoeroticism of Equus. Alec and the stal lion find food for each other, watch sun sets together and finally celebrate their relationship in a wild ride along the shore. Once the pah- are rescued and reach Alec...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Ride on a Dream Horse | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

...initially brought run-together phrases like "pink-telephone" and "let's-go-marketing" to the surface, and they finally traced most of Ginny and Gracie's speech to English and minor German influences. One initial mystery, "toolaymeia" (for spaghetti), turned out to be a corruption of o sole mio, the family way of referring to Italian pasta. A scattering of words like "nunukid," "pulana" and "padeng" (possibly pudding) still remain perplexing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Ginny and Gracie Go to School | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

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