Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like the skateboard and Hula-Hoop, California's fads inevitably migrate eastward. The latest, freeway shootings, appears to have faded on the West Coast but is all the rage in southern Illinois and is spreading to eastern Missouri. A recent rash of seemingly random events has left one person dead and one wounded. Outside Collinsville, Ill., shotgun fire struck a man in the chest and arm as he drove down Interstate 55. Fifteen minutes later and ten miles away, another driver was shot in the head and killed. Across the state line in St. Louis County, Mo., last week...
According to a Pentagon spokesman, Army Privates Robert Bedker and Willard Craig were incorrectly listed as killed in action through data-coding errors. A third man, Darrall Lausch of Baroda, Mich., spotted his name on a list of the dead in a local newspaper. Lausch and Craig are both recorded as killed in action on Nov. 19, 1966, the date they were wounded, and appear two lines , apart on the memorial. The names, which are etched in black granite, cannot be removed without damaging the structure...
...might be expected, Kennedy's case-by-case approach stirs neither great enthusiasm nor dead-end opposition in the Senate. Jesse Helms, North Carolina's conservative curmudgeon, once growled, "No way, Jose," at the prospect of Kennedy's nomination. But last week he allowed that Kennedy might make a "fine" Justice. Liberals are mostly being noncommittal, but they will have trouble taking back their comments during the Bork fight, when some identified Kennedy as the type of conservative they could accept. Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe, who helped lead the opposition against Bork, describes Kennedy as "decent instead of dogmatic...
...like Mozart in Amadeus, this sophisticated thinker seems suspended emotionally in adolescence. As Turing, Jacobi speaks beautifully, zealously, of his passion for science but stutters and splutters when meeting other people. All the energy of his psyche seems to have gone inward. He remains romantically fixated on a long-dead schoolmate who is a living, palpable presence in the play. In Jacobi's haunted portrayal, giggly boyishness not only coexists with soaring intellect but is essential to it: learning to live within the codes of adulthood would shut down this man's wonder and imagination...
...troubles have also arrived in Laoag, 300 miles to the north in Ilocos Norte province. Four weeks ago David Bueno, a human-rights lawyer, was getting into his car when two men on a motorcycle shot him dead. The murder remains unsolved, like almost all such cases in the Philippines. "After David died," says Bueno's brother Excel, "people in tattered clothes and bare feet came to say, 'Thank you for your brother. Without him no one would have fought for us.' " But not a word of condolence came from Aquino's Human Rights Commission. "I want to support Cory...