Word: bursting
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...couriers. The youngest mule he has encountered was 17. The oldest was an 82-year-old fruit seller from Bogota who was caring for a 40-year-old retarded son. The narcotraffickers promised her that with just one trip, she could ensure her son's future. But a condom burst as she got into a taxi at Kennedy Airport, and she died an agonizing death. "I sent her home," says Tobon. Many, if not most, mules are women...
DIED. ALBERT SCHOEPPER, 83, conductor who kept the Marine Band--the President's Own--in line and on key; in Alexandria, Va. Colonel Schoepper also played the diplomat at White House concerts: he once continued gamely when Winston Churchill burst into song to accompany the band...
...burst. Yasser Arafat today accused the Israeli government of an "act of war" and urged Palestinians to "prepare for battle". The Palestinian president's sabre-rattling came in an interview with Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth, which quoted him as saying that "Netanyahu has declared war on us and we have to prepare for what will come. The situation is serious...
...Jazz Singer, after Al Jolson says, "You ain't heard nothin' yet," he doesn't burst into speech. He sings Toot Toot Tootsie. In the dawn of sound, talking pictures were often singing ones. Hollywood released 55 musicals in 1929, an amazing 78 in 1930. And these were just the feature films. To pad the program, studios made shorts (typically 10 minutes) in which stars from Broadway, radio and nightclubs performed and, as best they could, acted in a dramatic setting. Back then these films--the equivalent of short stories, but with songs--were fillers. Today they're thrillers, precious...
...shorts offered a lesson in liberalism: they opened middle America's ears to a burgeoning range of music. Not just black artists but country singers (Eddie Younger), opera stars (Nino Martini) and Chinese-American flappers (Anna Chang) burst into the consciousness of audiences who may at first have resisted the performers as foreign, then melted in the presence of all that charm, talent, eagerness to please...