Word: charlestoning
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...state capital of Charleston, Democratic Governor Jay Rockefeller had proposed a modest jobs program to the state legislature, which the lawmakers, unable to reach an agreement on, tabled before they recessed in mid-March. And he is earmarking $10 million, which he saved by slashing pork-barrel projects from the state budget, for jobs. Such action would come none too soon for towns like Gary that are hanging on by a string of hope. Nearly half of Gary's municipal employees have been laid off and the rest have been reduced to four-day work weeks...
Based on Dorothy and DuBose Heyward's 1927 play and set in Charleston, S.C., Porgy is the story of a crippled beggar's unconquerable love for Bess, a lady of easy virtue. So strong is Porgy's passion that he kills his rival, Crown, and when Bess is whisked off to New York by the smooth-talking Sportin' Life, Porgy quixotically sets out after her in his goat cart. Porgy is a relic of the first important period in American opera, the '30s-a decade that also saw Louis Gruenberg's The Emperor Jones...
...cocaine psychosis:" Violence is not rare. When Nicky's wife finally smashed his free-basing pipe, he threw furniture and chased her from their suburban house. "I went ape," he says. Mike, the son of a well-to-do South Carolina lawyer, is a patient turned counselor at Charleston's Fenwick Hall drug-treatmeat center. He carried a gun during his cocaine madness. In 1980, as he was being arrested for the last time (for jumping into Charleston Harbor to "hunt sharks"), he kicked out the windows of a police squad car. Fortunately, according to Haight-Ashbury's Dr. Smith...
Although the Charleston excavation has proved especially fruitful, officials yesterday said the major rationale for closing the institute--uncertainly about the future demand for environmental studies--still remains...
...Laden expressed doubt that economic uncertainty or administrative re-shuffling necessitated closing the institute. "There's no good reason, other than lack of interest from Harvard," he said. Laden added that many ICA staff have started searching for work since the Charleston dig's completion...