Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After a lengthy custody battle in which Gina M. Ocon '98 won the right to return to Cambridge with her baby daughter, Bailey, her ex-boyfriend announced that he will also make the trans-continental move...
...supposed to be a track triumph, but it ended up a tacky travesty. To prove who was the fastest, after months of sniping, DONOVAN BAILEY, who won the 100-m Olympic gold medal, raced on a 150-m track against MICHAEL JOHNSON, who won the 200-m and 400-m gold medals. Bailey won after Johnson gave up halfway with an injury. But the battle didn't stop there. "He didn't pull up," said Bailey afterward. "He's a coward." Johnson's manager then accused Bailey's team of trying to injure his prize runner. Bailey apologized...
...surprise success way-off-Broadway that has just moved to larger quarters--playwright and director Moises Kaufman has dramatized that fall with the sort of rapier stylization that Wilde himself would have admired. Nine actors facing the audience in two rows--a kind of oratorio at the Old Bailey--re-enact the legal proceedings and comment on them at the same time, using excerpts from newspaper accounts, biographical works and the memoirs of Wilde and others. It's a dazzling coup de theatre, at once compelling history and chilling human drama...
...that occurred at the 1960 Democratic Convention in Los Angeles. It seems that four Mississippi delegates hitched a ride to a party in a chauffeured Kennedy campaign car that then collided with another car. The injured (and apparently ungrateful) foursome sued J.F.K. for $450,000. Among the plaintiffs: HUGH BAILEY, a colorful state senator known for his regular antics on a donkey, who hired lawyer Marvin Mitchelson, later of palimony fame. As Mitchelson's interrogatories began chipping into valuable White House time, J.F.K.'s lawyers tried a now familiar tactic. They argued that the Commander in Chief was temporarily protected...
...Making national headlines, Gina M. Ocon '98 wins custody of her 10-month-old daughter, Bailey, allowing her to leave Long Beach, Calif., and return to Harvard against the wishes of the baby's father...