Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hellcats of the Navy, in which she co-starred with her husband. When Ron, the second child, was born in 1958, she was almost 37 and no longer acting in feature films. But two years later the Reagans performed together again in a very curious TV production called A Turkey for the President: they played the poultry-farming Caldwells, an American Indian couple in Southern California whose son is chosen to send his pet bird to the White House for Thanksgiving dinner...
...dramatic climax, development or even coherence Coppola never investigates the dynamics of the gangsters world, even though "the power" changes hands several times during the film. Coppola presents the titillating moments of mob murders, like when Dixie and Vera watch the impulsive Dutchman stab his rival Flynn with a turkey carver during dinner. The blood sprays the walls, and covers the ivory tablecloth, while drops fall from the chandelier onto Lane's porcelian cheeks. Although scenes like these have dramatic bang, they never build to anything substantitive, instead disappearing into Coppola's cinematic labyrinth...
...yielded a rich trove of Bronze Age artifacts, some of which are now at a museum in Bodrum, Turkey: 6,000 lbs. of copper ingots (the "biscuits"), a store of tin (which was combined with copper to make the bronze that gives the era its name), scattered pottery, gold objects, amphoras filled with glass beads, and some ivory from an elephant tusk and a hippopotamus tooth. Says Bass: "I can say without hesitation that this is the most exciting and important ancient shipwreck found in the Mediterranean...
...larger than a button, with markings similar to those used by the Greek merchants who dominated the ancient Mediterranean trade routes. Bass speculates that the ill-starred voyage had picked up tin in Syria and sailed west to acquire copper in Cyprus before heading for either Greece or Turkey...
...voyage of the Universestates in Seattle, once in the fall and once in the spring. From there, the ship visits Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka, India, Egypt, Turkey, Greece and Spain. This year, however, it avoided India because of the political troubles there, said Helen M. Delahanty, mother of Jean L. Delahanty '85, who is now on the boat...