Word: cons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heart attack; in Burlingame, Calif. He started his career in the 1930s as America's first major male star, dancing for George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein in a precursor of today's New York City Ballet. Creator of such popular, diverse works as Filling Station and Con Amore, Christensen, with his dancing brothers Harold and Willam, helped to build the quality of ballet in the western...
...Storm King Mountain hydroelectric power plant. Harvard appointed a committee to look into whether the land should be sold and, in January 1973, which drew up a report detailing the potential environmental nightmares which Storm King would have created--but advised Harvard "not to oppose" selling the land to Con Ed. Only after vigorous protests from environmentalists and students--2000 of whom in February signed a petition blasting the proposed sale--did Harvard back down...
...responsible for maintaining law and order at the convention, San Francisco Police Chief Cornelius ("Con") Murphy will not only command his own 2,000-member police force but also oversee 200 deputy sheriffs, 70 California highway patrol officers and 200 FBI agents. He has ordered work shifts extended to twelve hours a day, introduced a 229-member squad specially trained to disperse rapidly and arrest violent demonstrators, and overseen the planning for every contingency from tipsy delegates to terrorist attacks. Says Murphy, whose headquarters will be at the police command post across the street from Moscone Center: "We foresee traffic...
...Always distrust professed honesty," says Scumbler, an aging, defiantly bohemian American painter in Paris. "It's the ultimate con job." This seems an odd assertion from a character whose narrative is one long profession of emotional candor, sensitivity, creativity and individuality. William Wharton's novel is no con job, however, but something perhaps harder to take: a credo of total, devout and sometimes excruciating sincerity...
...urban cowboy but still looked "like he mainlined cement." Paco Boza, a Cuban street junkie of LaBrava, tools around South Miami Beach in a stolen Eastern Airlines wheelchair "because he didn't like to walk and because he thought it was cool." Cornell Lewis, a black ex-con houseman for a high roller in Stick, explains his boss: "What the man likes is to rub up against danger without getting any on him. Make him feel like the macho man ... See, he sits there at the club with his rich friends? Say, oh yeah, I go right...