Word: dead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...joined the body at the 40th day of pregnancy." Forty is a magical number. The biblical Flood lasted 40 days and 40 nights, Ali Baba had 40 thieves, and Moses wandered in the wilderness for 40 days. Suleiman died standing up, leaning on his cane. Nobody realized he was dead until 40 days later, when he finally fell...
Armed youth gangs have long prowled the streets of east and south-central Los Angeles, terrorizing the poor neighborhoods and fighting bloody turf battles. But the violence during the past month has been especially lethal. In the bloodiest weekend in 17 years, nine people were shot dead and six wounded in a "drive-by" shooting, when gang members opened fire on youths arriving at a party. Five people were murdered in a matter of seconds. Still another shooting last Thursday brought the week's total to ten. The majority of the week's victims were innocent bystanders. Among...
...series Cover Up until he shot himself in the temple two weeks ago with a blank-loaded .44-cal. Magnum pistol while playing "Russian roulette"; of brain damage; in San Francisco. After a week's struggle to save his life, doctors pronounced him brain dead, and his heart, kidneys and corneas were used for transplants. The show will go on; a search for Hexum's replacement has already started...
...derisive snort and the bark of astonishment. Within the film's first few minutes, Russell and Screenwriter Barry Sandier have thrown every visual, verbal and sexual excess at the viewer. A played-out stripper dances while men masturbate at peepholes and a deranged preacher (Anthony Perkins) imagines her dead on the floor. The hooker dresses up in a tiara and a blue satin gown to play a beauty-pageant contender with an unusual talent. Neon flares like a headache in hell, and the screen seems caked with guilt and sweat...
...race was marred by the first death in its history. A French runner identified by race officials as Jacques Bussereau, 48, collapsed after running about 15 miles and was pronounced dead of an apparent heart attack in the emergency room of Elmhurst Hospital in Queens...