Word: ben
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...black reporter specializing in black America, I had long been aware of the plague of black-on-black homicide in the nation's ghettos. But it took two incidents to focus the story. One was the brutal murder in Chicago last year of a black high school basketball star, Ben Wilson, by two youths who seemed to have no motive at all. The other was the incredible burst of support from black New Yorkers for Bernhard Goetz, the white subway vigilante. He was a lightning rod for the fears that many blacks have of their own violent young...
...style threats and by the specter of schoolbook censorship, legislation of private morality, and the packing of courts with doctrinaire "pro-family" judges. Some of the most thoughtful objections come from the Evangelical movement. The "packaging of the Gospel with politics" is unfortunate for the faith, says Chattanooga's Ben Haden, a conservative Presbyterian pastor and TV preacher. He compares the Fundamentalists who are venturing into politics to the church liberals who stressed social action over the Gospel in the 1960s. Charles Colson, the Nixon aide who served seven months in federal prison for his role in the Watergate scandal...
JASON ROBARDS' STILLAR performances as a supporting actor won him several academy awards (in 1976 as Ben Bradlce in All the President's Men and the following year for Julia). But when he made the jump to starring roles, his films could...
Golf's unfairness, its primary feature, starts with the widely disparate knacks men have for the game. Not that it is a reasonable pursuit at any level. Only in Ben Hogan's sleep -- almost -- has golf ever been mastered: "The perfect score is 18, and I nearly dreamed it once. I had 17 holes in one and lipped out at the last. I was mad as hell." But the allure it holds for those who cannot play in the slightest is a secret as elusive as a dream. A few days after the Open, Golf Digest tried...
...bedroom windows and not get half the kick of a Westheimer show. You sit mesmerized as Ruth soothingly points out, "Normalcy is hard to define," and "There is no one right size for the penis." You get to look down on all the bumpkins who call in wondering whether Ben-Gay makes them sterile. In fact, everything's such a mess out there, it makes your own sex life seem pretty good. Ours is superb, by the way. Best of all, my beloved one, when you listen to Dr. Ruth, you feel a surge of therapeutic uplift that many...