Word: beate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heat of competition, New York and New Jersey haulers slash rates, by hiring non-union labor, and dump trash from all over the nation into the ocean to beat landfill or incineration fees. Simple economics...
...material follows Thriller's golden trail. There is a Billie Jean equivalent (Dirty Diana) about a trashy romance. There are the ballads, deep as wall-to-wall pile, and there is the violent showpiece Smooth Criminal. The title track is Beat It redux, a spectacularly snazzy hang-tough tune that warns against macho excess. What the Thriller cut played for laughs, however, Smooth Criminal takes straight: an evocation of bloody assault, possible rape and likely murder. At any time, it would sound like a creepy song. At the end of the album, it has the effect of casting...
...kill her. On the afternoon of March 1, 1982, he asked the young woman for a ride to his C.P.A. night class at L.S.U.'s local campus. Once in Francioni's white Mustang, Rault produced a .25-cal. pistol and shot her in the abdomen. He raped her, beat her and slit her throat with a knife. The two hours of viciousness ended when he dumped her body on the city's east side and set the body afire to cover his crime. But an off-duty state trooper spotted the blaze, and minutes later Rault, reeking of gasoline...
...pragmatist in Costner beat out the performer, and he enrolled at Cal State-Fullerton to study marketing and finance. By his senior year he was bored. "I picked up a copy of the college daily paper and saw an ad for Rumpelstiltskin auditions," he recalls. "I didn't get a part, but my creative spirit was pounding...
...more than a few questions for Park Soon Ja, but the 48-year-old woman was nowhere to be found. The entrepreneur from Taejon, 100 miles south of Seoul, owed 220 people more than $10 million. She was last seen in mid- August, when 13 of her employees severely beat two creditors who had tried to collect money owed them. Even Park's husband Lee Kee Chung did not seem to know where...