Word: affrays
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...footballers John Terry, Jody Morris and Desmond Byrne, the fallout from a Jan. 3 booze-up has been far more enduring than a hangover: after a disturbance in a London club that included an alleged attack on its doorman, the three players were arrested and charged with affray and assault causing actual bodily harm. Last Wednesday, after pleading not guilty to the charges in a London magistrate's court, they were remanded on bail to face committal proceedings next month...
...restrict the players' drinking and behavior. do you want to be a drunk or a footballer? screamed the Mirror. Indeed, a series of negative headlines involving footballers over recent months - including the retrial of Leeds United stars Jonathan Woodgate and Lee Bowyer, in which Woodgate was found guilty of affray - suggests a disturbing trend of players behaving badly. It also questions the ability of the game's authorities to control some of the world's best-paid athletes...
Clamoring to get into the Trump affray were such professional tattletales and partygoers as Aileen Mehle, veteran writer of the Post's "Suzy" column, syndicated to more than 100 newspapers, plus Smith's Daily News colleague William Norwich, New York Newsday's James Revson and a phalanx of others from all over. Even London dailies were grabbing at the story, pursuing the angle of Ivana's brief first marriage to an Austrian ski pal. We're not talking just the wacky supermarket scandal sheets, whose more enticing headlines last week included JAMES DEAN IS ALIVE!, CHEERS STAR'S FATHER...
...scene is a poor, bedraggled Dublin district during the doomed 1916 Easter Week Rebellion. O'Casey had no illusions about that sadly absurdist affray. Commandant Jack Clitheroe (Clive Geraghty) of the Irish Citizen Army is a crackbrained patriot who is willing to die for his country but not to live for it. The Dublin tenement dwellers are represented as drunken, excitable souls, passionately unified by a nationalistic cause...
...Negroes and whites sympathetic to the Panthers' aims gathered for outdoor memorial services for Bobby Hutton, the two policemen wounded at the outset of the affray on 28th Street were in good condition and one had already been able to leave the hospital. San Diego's Panther Leader Kenny Denmon said the shooting had spurred his group to switch from political organizing to procuring guns. Speaking from a flatbed truck at the ceremony, Actor Marlon Brando, a Panther supporter, vowed to "do as much as I can to inform white people that time is running out." Specifically, Oakland...