Word: bows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...officers observed them in the rear of 9 Bow St. doing some kind of transaction with a white, powdery substance," said police records manager Carl A. Tempesta...
...Bow St. building is occupied by the Center for Population Studies of the School of Public Health. It is adjacent to Adams House and the Bow and Arrow...
Music and joy have always been "Slava" Rostropovich's great goals, but he is also remarkable for his repeated refusals to bow down before the Kremlin. When Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn came under fire for his books on the Soviet Gulag, Rostropovich took him into his house. He also wrote a letter attacking the censors who banned Solzhenitsyn's work. "For 48 hours after I wrote that letter," Rostropovich recalls, "Galina did not sleep but cried. She told me, 'You have the right to destroy yourself, but what right do you have to destroy my life and the lives of your daughters...
Subsequent investigation revealed that the two sources were members of the Harvard Lampoon, a Bow St. social club renowned for its valiant and unceasing efforts at humor. Nixon could not be reached for comment...
Some of the royal genes crop out now and then. Author Michael Holroyd, clearly a partisan, portrays Antonia entering a crowded room: "There's a stateliness about her. It's almost like a member of the royal family; people feel they should make a little bow. Some people are dazzled, some feel overawed. She can intimidate some and charm others. It's chemistry -- and possibly height. But as soon as she laughs, the formality is completely dissolved." Adds playwright Arthur Miller, a frequent guest of the Pinters: "She has great elegance as a writer and as a person." Marigold Johnson...