Word: belled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Professor of Law Derrick A. Bell, who gave the central speech in the service, said King was "hated, feared and finally killed because he spoke in prophetic terms" against the Vietnam war and against the United States' "failure to continue its war against poverty and inequality at home...
Ruth Abrams, the only woman currently serving on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, concurs with Gershengorn. "Even if the law is clear as a bell, sometimes a woman's perception is different," she says...
Mitnick has apparently compiled a long history of computer capers. At 17 he used the phone system to enter Pacific Bell's computer network and steal electronically stored technical manuals, earning himself six months in a juvenile-detention facility followed by probation. Perhaps not coincidentally, the judge in the case later discovered that electronic files at a credit- information service had been mysteriously altered to downgrade the judge's credit rating. And a telephone belonging to a probation officer assigned to Mitnick's case was disconnected, although the phone company had no record of having done...
...obscure airlines, unglamorous theater folk, out-of-town magazine writers, and several old ladies who looked like great aunts. The stains on the wallpaper got to be old friends. If you came in past 11:30 p.m., you found the door locked. Eventually, the night porter would answer the bell, not exactly in his bathrobe but looking the way your girlfriend's father used to when you brought her home late. If your step was wobbly on these occasions, the porter looked concerned. Rates passed for cheap in midtown -- $80 for a small suite -- and if you had not checked...
...admiration may be as much for the time as for the man. Graceland's furniture, hues, appliances and attitudes are frozen in the 1970s. "People complain that Graceland isn't up to date," says cousin Karen. "But you have to remember what people looked like in the '70s -- the bell-bottoms, the sideburns." The mansion's many mirrors may reflect graying hair and fuller waistlines, but the hallways seem to whisper a message of supple hips and simple dreams. One can almost hear Elvis singing "I've heard the news, there's good rockin' tonight." At Graceland the good times...