Word: circuitous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...words are traditional; their relationship is not. Sharon was declared "an unfit parent" last week by Henrico County Circuit Court Judge Buford Parsons Jr. His one reason: she is a lesbian...
...county circuit judge in Virginia ruled last week that a woman's lesbianism made her an unsuitable parent. Sharon Bottoms lost custody of her two-year-old son to her mother Kay Bottoms. Kay complained that the boy called Sharon's lover "Dada...
...closest male friends are mostly comedians he met on the club circuit in Los Angeles. Even they concede that Letterman reveals little about himself. George Miller, who lived in the same apartment building as Letterman, across the street from the Comedy Store, recalls taking him along on his first three or four guest appearances on the Tonight Show. When Letterman was invited for his first Tonight gig, however, "I found out about it from Merrill," says Miller. "I was a little ticked off. But it's just because he's so private...
...Killer" is so far his only film to receive attention in the US. Its limited tour of the art-house and college circuit in the past two years created huge interest in the works of Mr. Woo and other Hong Kong directors. A melodramatic story of a good-hearted assassin, "The Killer" features mayhem committed on a magnitude and with a magnitude of style rarely seen in this country...
...unsnaps the gun's holster. "They may kill me," he says, "but I'm going to take some of them with me." Tucker knows that someone out there may really mean business; only last winter an antiabortion extremist shot and killed David Gunn, an abortion doctor who rode the circuit just to the south...