Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...much that the threat of nuclear war is unworthy of examination as that no one has had anything new to say about it since Dr. Strangelove; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Just look at the details: Colonel Jack D. Ripper, the good doctor, the Soviet doomsday machine. Not only did Kubrick do nuclear armageddon first, he did it right, eschewing white-knuckled sentimental despair for ballsy black comedy--and unlike Kopit's play, Kubrick delivers on his premise with the end of the world...
...weapons were brutal: pipe bombs set inside harmless-looking packages that exploded when moved. The first victim, Steven Christensen, 31, a Salt Lake City businessman and Mormon bishop, was killed outside his office on Oct. 15, 1985. A few hours later in a nearby suburb, a second bomb took the life of Kathleen Sheets, 50, the wife of J. Gary Sheets, a former partner of Christensen...
...next day a third pipe bomb exploded in downtown Salt Lake City. This time, however, the victim survived -- and eventually became the prime suspect in the two murders. Authorities believed Mark Hofmann, a dealer in rare documents, many on early Mormon history, had been injured while setting a bomb in his own car, possibly to direct suspicion away from himself. Last week the 15-month investigation against Hofmann came to a close when he pleaded guilty to reduced charges of second-degree murder in the bombings and to two counts of theft by deception for selling forged or nonexistent documents...
...physical therapist for a local hospital. But when the FBI came to his door last week, Jackson admitted to being Silas Trim Bissell, 44, one of the founders of the violent Weather Underground movement and a fugitive since 1970, when he skipped bail on charges of conspiring to bomb a Reserve Officer Training Center in Seattle...
...Turner has used his share of Perils-of-Pauline financial maneuvers in building Turner Broadcasting System, the parent firm of Cable News Network and superstation WTBS. But the brash entrepreneur put a time bomb under his company when he bought MGM/UA Entertainment last March for $1.5 billion. As part of the purchase agreement for the film and TV production firm, Turner issued 53.3 million shares of preferred stock in Turner Broadcasting. A provision of the deal was that starting this June, he would have to pay dividends on those shares in the form of common stock in his firm...