Word: dead
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...gone down to Lafayette, La., for the goofy good times of That Was Your Mother and out to California, where he recorded All Around the World or The Myth of Fingerprints with Los Lobos, a terrific Mexican- American band of rockers. He knew his aim had to be dead true this time out. "If I miss in the direction of head, I risk being obscure or pretentious," he reflects. "If I miss in the direction of heart, I risk being sentimental. I dread both. I dance in the penumbra. That's the thrill. When it's right, I can feel...
...scheduled, 21-hour flight from Bombay to Frankfurt and New York. Eighteen hours later, a few minutes before 10 p.m. Friday, the 747 jumbo jet still stood on the tarmac, but by then at least 17 of the plane's estimated 400 passengers and crew members were dead, victims of a hijacking and a subsequent firefight. About 125 more were injured, some critically. Of the four Palestinian terrorists who had commandeered the plane, all were in custody, including one who was gravely injured...
...carried by one of the terrorists exploded inside the synagogue, killing both of them and dismembering nearly everyone inside. Said Avram Albohayre, general secretary of the synagogue's foundation: "Pieces of the bodies are all over the place. It is barbaric." The bloody toll in the congregation: 22 worshipers dead, reportedly including seven rabbis...
...world of Ozzie and Harriet but the world alongside it: a small world within a world where the population looks either sinister or dead and the language is jazz or chemistry. Set me straight, man? Got any splim? Red? Strawberry? I got the Rams, man. Don't give me no Rooster Brand. Officials warn of fentanyl and phenylalkylamines. It is all arcane...
...short, like all conscientious artists, Moore composed his own tribunal, that of the great dead from whose silent judgment there is no appeal. Naturally, his lack of close affinity with the avant-garde -- or even with the idea of avant-gardism -- made him seem like a fuddy-duddy to some younger sculptors, particularly in the '60s. It might have been otherwise had he behaved like the Great English Artist people were always making him out to be, but he was utterly without pretension, and his zeal for public service, as long...