Word: cyrill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from the Philippines, but she left him after only three months, accusing him of spousal rape. He also had a knack for making good investments: police found documents in his house showing that he owned $500,000 worth of stock. Heidnik and a friend who occasionally in the house, Cyril ("Tony") Brown, 31, were charged with murder, rape and kidnaping, and prosecutors said they would seek the death penalty against Heidnik. Twenty years ago, Heidnik's father, Michael, 74, a former Eastlake, Ohio, councilman, disowned the son, and he has not seen him since then. Last week he proclaimed...
...down some four dozen witnesses, 21 of whom appear in the TV trial. Those testifying for the prosecution range from experts in pathology and ballistics to former Oswald acquaintances like Buell Wesley Frazier, who drove him to work on the day of the assassination. The defense witnesses include Dr. Cyril Wecht, a pathologist, who argues that a single bullet could not (as the official version states) have struck both Kennedy and Texas Governor John Connally, and others who give evidence suggesting that Oswald was the patsy in a conspiracy, possibly involving Oswald's killer, Jack Ruby. The trial includes...
...reasons as inscrutable as Rasputin's stare, Kinski was out and Irving was back in. Why? Olivia de Havilland, who plays Anastasia's grandmother, notes that Irving "looks very much like Anna Anderson." Kinski is not talking. Irving cites the signing-on of Rex Harrison, who plays Grand Duke Cyril and with whom she co-starred on Broadway in 1983. "Rex's being involved helped change my mind," says Irving, who adds that the mini-series is more than a rehash of the 1956 movie: "This one is closer to the facts." If not necessarily the truth...
...days later 5,000 miners assembled in a stadium a few miles away for a ; second service. Cyril Ramaphosa, general secretary of the big miners' union, explained that it was a response to the earlier ceremony, which had been organized by people "who murdered 177 of our comrades." A great cry of "Viva Winnie Mandela!" echoed through the stadium as the wife of Nelson Mandela, the long-imprisoned black leader, arrived. "We accept that the time for talking has come to an end," she told the workers. "The moment you stop digging (Pretoria's) gold and diamonds, we will...
...most impressive of these semichanges is the alteration of a first name to an initial. This is often thought to be a means of suppressing some supposedly sissified first name. (Would Parkinson's law ever have been discovered if C. Northcote Parkinson had remained Cyril N. Parkinson?) More commonly, such changes suppress a plain name. (Could Bill Harriman have served Presidents as grandly as W. Averell Harriman did? Would the FBI have achieved the same renown under Jack Hoover as it did under J. Edgar Hoover...