Word: sun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...medieval French used to keep merchants honest. A royal edict of 1481 held that "anyone who sells butter that contains stones or other things to add to the weight will be put into our pillory; then said butter will be placed on his head until entirely melted by the sun. Dogs may lick him and people offend him with whatever defamatory epithets they please without offense to God or king." Alas, the commissioner concluded, "we are more gentle toward transgressors today...
...simple to play. "Ai-yai-yai-yai-yai! Copland cried out repeatedly at the recording session as he missed one or another of his own notes. A few feet away, Shaffer smiled sweetly back, having nothing to swear about, since she misses a note about as often as the sun fails to come...
...platinum instrument not only sounds like a veritable Heldenflöte; it actually is one. It weighs 20 oz., compared with 15 oz. for the average silver model. Shaffer psychs herself into certain musical moods, thinking of bright white lights for staccato passages, for instance, or of the setting sun when she has to change from fortissimo to pianissimo. "As the sun drops lower," she explains, "the heat may lessen but the colors become more intense. That is what a pianissimo should be like...
...Lila does little things that start by vaguely irritating her new husband and end by giving him long second thoughts. She talks constantly about what their life will be like after 50 years of marriage, craves chicken salad and postcoital Milky Ways and, on her first day in the sun, bakes herself to a fearful incarnadine. She spends the next couple of days in the hotel room, time enough for Lenny to fall wildly in love with a snippy blonde from Minnesota named Kelly Corcoran (Cybill Shepherd...
...from homeland tax men or otherwise "hot"-is fleeing Nassau. Millions of dollars are landing in, of all places, the Cayman Islands, a British crown colony south of Cuba. Once a pirates' stash, the Caymans have existed for the past 300 years mostly by soaking up the Caribbean sun. TIME Correspondent Christopher Byron visited both Grand Cayman Island and Nassau and filed this report...