Word: benning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shortly after J. Russell Hornsby, 49, backed a decision to fire the new business manager of his electrical-contracting firm, police in Orlando, Fla., heard from an informer that the dismissed executive, John Robert Sapp, 38, was scouting the area for someone to bump off Hornsby. Detective Ben Hernandez, posing as a Cuban hit man named Frank, volunteered for the job. According to police, Hernandez was hired and given a down payment. Later he reported to Sapp that Hornsby had been duly killed and demanded the rest of his $5,000 payoff. To authenticate the deal, police swarmed around Hornsby...
Reading Lamont's essays grates against all the modern sensibilities. Samples from one year, 1973, range from an interview with Chile's president Salvador Allende to a humanist pamphlet titled "How to Be Happy--Though Married." Who is this latter-day Ben Franklin, anyway? Why is he trying to take a stance on every conceivable aspect of life in this world? How can anyone be "conversant," "critical," and "definitive" in more than the appointed intellectual niche? Corliss Lamont, yea even a Corliss Widener, who does he think...
...only gross defensive error of the game, Bob Thompson missed the ball for the Crimson while trying to settle it. The ball rolled behing him to Cardinal forward Rich Sloss, who scored by shooting the ball past Ben Bryant on the left side of the goal. Though the ball passed one to two ft. beside Bryant it was hit so hard from only 8 to 10 ft. away that Bryant did not even have time to react...
...show. Many women seem to be turning back to the traditional female skills of sewing, quilting and handcrafts and combining them with photography as a way of expressing their sense of their past roles and their future artistic identity. Wendy Calman's "Flying Franklin Lightning Show" and "Ben and Me" are whimsical constructions, combining photography with puppet theater, that gently parody our national obsession with our Founding Fathers while Eileen Cowin creates both a visual pun and a commentary on women and society by juxtaposing an ad for peaches with a picture of a corseted woman...
...blacks? "If you go up to a Midwest WASP and ask the time, he'll look at his watch and say 'Quarter of four.' You go in the ghetto and ask a black guy and he'll say, 'Do I look like Big Ben to you, turkey...