Word: cactus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brave Marchers. Because the Spaniards had pulled back nine miles to the dissuasion line, the Moroccans encountered no resistance other than the cactus and the sand they kicked up into annoying swirls. Ahead, the land was completely flat until the dissuasion line, where it dips into a valley and rises to a plateau. On the plateau's rim, silhouettes of Spanish army tanks were visible; Spanish helicopters hovered ominously over the advancing column...
...separate "international chili cook-offs" this month-one held in Texas, the other in southern California-the "dish that won the West" inspired more culinary variations and impassioned claims than there are spines on a cactus. Those who cater to chili addicts are as contentious as their customers, but they agree on at least one fact: the growing and packaging of peppers and chili products have become a multimillion-dollar industry...
...hope I'll still be sexy," fretted German-born Actress Elke Sommer, who faces her 34th birthday next week and an upcoming stage role as an older woman in Cactus Flower. Male viewers of Sommer's newest movie, The Net, will probably see little cause for her concern. Cast as a kittenish prostitute on the run from a maniacal killer, Elke displays her talents in one scene through an all-leather outfit she bought in Chicago. "I loved it and wanted to wear it barefoot during the filming in Rome," she recalled. Not so Director Manfred Purzer...
...modern age offers no more pleasurable rewards than this: driving east, across New Mexico, in the early morning light, the desert sunrise even--while listening to the New Riders of the Purple Sage. It's strong seventies imagery, all cowboy songs, loping and drifting beneath a painted sky, past cactus and rocky badlands. My brother didn't take off his high boots and NRPS tee shirt for two years...
...years the young lawyers of California Rural Legal Assistance had been a cactus under conservative Governor Ronald Reagan. But lately they seemed to have come into their own. When Edmund Brown Jr. replaced Reagan, he appointed three former C.R.L.A. lawyers to top state jobs. More recently, C.R.L.A. won a major legal victory abolishing use of the hated short-handled hoe that ruined the backs and health of many farm workers. Nonetheless, C.R.L.A. is currently deep in gloom. Reason: money. Last week all 48 C.R.L.A. lawyers, as well as the rest of the staff, took pay cuts in a desperate attempt...