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Word: aristocrats (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Thracian warrior and his horse were both dead, the aristocrat's head lolling in the ditch, golden breastplate crumpled where the spear had struck, fist clutched tardily, forever, at the hilt of a jewelled dagger...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Centaurs' Treasure | 10/12/1977 | See Source »

...village, Christchurch, which is about 100 miles southwest of King's Langley.) In any event, Carter's onetime countrymen are delighted to find that the President of the U.S. is to the manor born, sort of. Says Brooks-Baker: "The English always wanted Carter to be an aristocrat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Magnus Carter: Jimmy's Roots | 8/22/1977 | See Source »

Died. Count Carl Gustaf von Rosen, 67, swashbuckling, humanitarian Swedish aristocrat; of gunshot wounds suffered during a surprise guerrilla attack; in Gode, Ethiopia. Von Rosen's daredevil "mercy" missions, which eventually spanned four decades and four wars, first brought him hero status during the 1936 Italian invasion of Ethiopia. The count once declared: "I was born in a castle, the son of a millionaire, and they tried to bring me up as a noble gentleman. But I was always naughty, always in trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 1, 1977 | 8/1/1977 | See Source »

...lightened hair for his role as a young steelworker in The Deer Hunter, now being shot on location near Pittsburgh. That must be it: De Niro does not look like De Niro. But then neither did the flat-out dumb baseball catcher in Bang the Drum Slowly, the moody aristocrat in 1900, the murderous psychopath in Taxi Driver, the elegantly upholstered movie mogul in The Last Tycoon, or the jazzed-up saxophone player in the newly released New York, New York. For that matter, none of these characters looked much like another-except for the aura of intensity under tight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: De Niro: The Phantom of the Cinema | 7/25/1977 | See Source »

...which she stars as a subdued, fragile and fearful wife, opened in Paris last week, and this week she starts filming Love at First Sight, a story of World War I. Some scenes will be shot at Maxim's, where Deneuve's two lovers, a French aristocrat (Philippe Noiret) and his German cousin (Sam Waterston), meet to celebrate her birthday. Deneuve is happy with her "beautiful part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 4, 1977 | 4/4/1977 | See Source »

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