Word: heather
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many, it was a disconcerting experience. In McCandless, Pa., four-year-old Heather Campbell, awakened in the morning by her mother, asked: "Why are we going to bed so late?" At the Chicago Zoological Park in Brookfield, keepers had to wake up the wolves for their Sunday dinner of horsemeat and ground turkey. In Puerto Rico, which stayed on standard time, hundreds of tourists missed their scheduled planes to the mainland because the airlines had adopted the new time schedule, and they had to be flown home aboard special flights. At the Bank of America headquarters in San Francisco, bleary...
...lock of her hair. Tucked into the bridal bouquet of white roses, lilies of the valley and stephanotis was "something old" -a sprig of myrtle grown on the Isle of Wight from a sprig of Queen Victoria's wedding bouquet-and a bit of white heather for good luck...
...cast bows after individual arias, no curtain calls at the end of Act I, and only one curtain call at the finale. Fine for the show, but a bit of a sacrifice for the exemplary cast (notably Roger Soyer as the don, Sir Geraint Evans as Leporello, and Heather Harper as Elvira) and Conductor Daniel Barenboim. Only seven years after rearranging a notable piano career to include the baton, Barenboim, 30, made an impressive operatic debut at Edinburgh, bringing forth from the English Chamber Orchestra a powerfully humane and often witty reading ideally geared to Ustinov's provocative ideas...
...weaker work incentive than the demogrant, since it would reduce benefits faster as income rose. And it would do much less for the middle class. To some economists, who were concerned about poverty but less with redistribution per se, this was a positive advantage of the new plan. Heather Ross, the economist who had prepared it, took this view...
...doctor madly in love with a sheep; and Allen plays, among other wonders, a sperm cell, a libidinous fail ure named Victor Shakapopolis, a spider, and a court jester caught by a king in the arms of a queen. For the film, Allen has written sketches starring Burt Reynolds, Heather MacRae, Lynn Redgrave and John Carradine as victims of everything from satyriasis to frigidity. Sex is certain to escalate Woody's current price for writing and directing a film to 10% of the gross. So why is this man weeping...