Word: arrowed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Unfortunately, when the film was developed, the heckler was nowhere in sight. He had ducked behind the group of President watchers. But Fury did discover someone more intriguing: President-Stalker John W. Hinckley. In the midst of a group of smiling people waiting to see the President, Hinckley (see arrow) looked worried and anxious. The photo, taken an hour before Hinckley's assassination attempt, has nested in FBI files for three months. It was shown to a grand jury, which has not yet handed down an indictment of Hinckley. This week Fury unveils the photo to the public...
...York City it is not unusual, at any time and in most places, to come upon a movie crew filming an incredible scene. But this demented episode was disturbingly real. At 5 a.m. on June 27 Gerard Coury, 26, straight-arrow son of a middle-class family, was chased by a gang of some 40 youths into a subway station as onlookers jeered him. He leapt past police, who tried to subdue him, and onto the tracks, where he died-perhaps from touching an electrified rail, or maybe from sheer fright...
Harvard draws a lot of criticism from Goodwin. The good guys have left, he says. Galbraith. Arrow. The "Public Interest Magazine group"--Moynihan, Huntington--all they have done is tear up liberalism. They have offered nothing in its place. The students? Dead. Audiences used to be passionate, one way or another. For you or against you. Now they're polite. Why don't they get mad? They want...
...things do simply happen). She also knows that people who get what they want will inevitably want something else: "The lovely thing about marriage is that life ambles on-as if life were some mean dering path lined with sturdy plane trees. A love affair is like a shot arrow. It gives life an intense direction, if only for an in stant." Colwin's witty, graceful stories convey both leisurely walks and sudden, unexpected sprints...
...rage we should feel over the marijuana story. Even without commentary we can glean from the accounts of Stroup's exploits that a major miscarriage of justice is being kicked around like any other political football. In fact, High in America will probably appeal to the straight-as-an-arrow gov major who is interested in the story of a political entrepeneur like Keith Stroup and how he was able to create a powerful lobby. The fact that all of this politics concerns dope is usually irrelevent...