Word: armstrong
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bulow was acquitted of trying to kill his wife, Martha ("Sunny") von Bulow. Claus' two stepchildren then filed a civil suit against him that was settled out of court after Von Bulow agreed, among other things, to renounce his claims to his comatose wife's fortune. Says attorney Michael Armstrong, who represented the stepchildren: "The purpose for the Von Bulow suit was to get Claus out of the lives of the family. When he agreed to do that, there was no longer any purpose in the case. The purpose of the family in the O.J. case is to prove their...
...last album dealt with specific manifestations of alienation--masturbation, pyromania--Insomniac is an indeterminate blur of bleakness. The CD's opening song, Armatage Shanks (the name of a toilet manufacturer), isn't about anything, really, and that may be its point. In the song, lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong wails about confusion: "Stranded/ lost inside myself...Self loathing freak and introverted." On the album's anthemic final number, Armstrong blurts out a series of snotty lyrics that sound like an amalgam of parental advice and fortune-cookie sentiments, concluding with the declaration: "I have no belief/ but I believe...
...Apollo moon missions, from 1967 to 1972, provided cubic tons of melodrama, from the explosion of the Apollo 1 test module that killed three astronauts to Neil Armstrong's buoyant lunar stroll from Apollo 11. The apogee of American know-how and teamwork, the program could, at the flick of a wrong switch, careen from triumph to tragedy. In this job, success meant you forged the ultimate frontier; failure meant you died with the whole world watching...
...Twenty years ago, we were smokin' grass," says Joe Armstrong, publisher of Garden Design. "Now we're cuttin' it." Formerly publisher of Rolling Stone, he has followed his baby-boomer generation into its latest passion. Once a dry periodical for professional architects and gardeners who speak fluent Latin, Garden Design was redesigned and reintroduced last April with a price of $5 an issue and a circulation of 50,000: average age, 43; median income, $71,000. Like other high-end offerings, its glossy editions feature gorgeous photography, closeups of sweaty petals and buxom peonies, landscapes that cry to be painted...
...research for the report will go into adatabase on public service at the Office ofGovernment, Community and Public Affairs,Armstrong told the Harvard Gazette this week