Word: circuitous
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...shooting death of a police officer in Bell County, Texas, had filed a direct state court appeal, a previous petition to the Supreme Court, state court habeas corpus proceedings and, when all those failed, a federal habeas corpus petition, which reached the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit last November. The appeals court denied his plea for a stay of execution...
...consists of works in, and on, handmade paper, done in his Shelter Island, N.Y., studio over the winter of 1982-83: a small affair, only seven pieces, but certainly the most delectable show to be seen in downtown Manhattan this summer. Shields has been showing on the international circuit for years, and his arrays of irregular patches and ribbons of stained canvas, sewn together with an offhand and improvisatory air, misled some critics into thinking of him as a kind of craftsy '60s bricoleur fiddling with mandalas by the seaside. (The sight of Shields, 6 ft. 4 in., with...
...oldtime Pentecostal faith-healing revival meeting still survives, and on this June night at the Brown County Veterans Memorial Arena in Green Bay, Wis., one of the latest practitioners on the circuit bears the most magical surname of them all. The handsome man with the well-rounded baritone voice and well-tailored suit is the Rev. Richard Roberts, 34, son and heir presumptive of Oral Roberts. Young Roberts is now ardently working the road that his father, 65, forsook when he folded his Gospel tent in favor of healing via TV in 1968. This year Richard Roberts will be preaching...
...Wojciech Jaruzelski and the memorial Mass for Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski. For those occasions, the government issued blue passes to a small fraction of the accredited reporters. Said Reporter Barry James of U.P.I.: "Having a press card entitled you to go into the press center and watch events on closed-circuit television." The telecasts were sometimes hours late, and no one in authority seemed able to say when, or if, footage would be shown...
Exhibition matches are an other murky story. In his recently published book on the tennis tour, Short Circuit, Michael Mewshaw quotes M. Marshall Happer III, administrator of the Pro Tennis Council, as saying, "I think all exhibitions are fixed." Excerpted in Harper's magazine and elsewhere, Mewshaw's book has replaced the weather as the common subject at Wimbledon. It is the account of a tennis buffs disillusionment when he discovers that everything in men's tennis is rotten: the strong-arming for appearance money, the dubious clinics and commercial deals to launder the money, the cooperation...