Word: died
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conservative heading into a political or social policy debate at Harvard is like leading the charge of the Light Brigade. You know you are going to be outgunned, possibly outwitted or, at the very least, shouted down, so the best you can do is hold your own and die honourably. If you try to show your liberal friends that you don't disagree that drastically with them on a certain issue, they immediately claim that you finally saw the light, and assume you have abandoned your conservatism...
...before his execution, Bundy, choking back sobs, said, "I don't want to die, I kid you not, ((but)) I deserve, certainly, the most extreme punishment society has." He had seemed to deliberately seek that punishment. In December 1977, while jailed in Colorado awaiting trial for the murder of a nurse, Bundy asked policemen which state would be most likely to execute a killer. Florida, he was told. He soon escaped from jail and headed for the Sunshine State. There he crushed the skulls of two sorority sisters in their rooms at Florida State University. Three weeks later, he killed...
...bottom of the screen to duplicate the breadth of the theatrical image), and this idea too is catching on. MGM is marketing lavish wide-screen editions of Doctor Zhivago and Ben- Hur, and 20th Century Fox will put out the Star Wars trilogy, as well as the recent smash Die Hard, in the full-frame format. Even E.T. was letter- boxed on disc, and Spielberg's earlier 1941, when it arrives on disc this summer, will be in wide screen and contain some 20 minutes of previously deleted smash-and-grab comedy footage. All this feverish cinema archaeology confirms that...
...idols. The worshipers were themselves semidivine: the new noble savages rhapsodized by the Who, the Stones, the denizens of Haight-Ashbury. As Steppenwolf sang in 1968, "Like a true nature child/ We were born, born to be wild/ We have climbed so high/ Never want to die...
...die they did, even the most brilliant among them. Janis Joplin. Jimi Hendrix. Jim Morrison. Burnt-out martyrs to the cause, done in by drugs and alcohol. The nobility of their nihilism is, today, a nightmare, the dark side of the force set free in the '60s. The paeans to the generation's liberties echo dolorously, as Love has truly become as strong as Death. "Sometimes," ( Eric Clapton said recently, "you need to hear some harmonic softeners, some quiet, to kind of quench the fire and calm yourself." But the fire cannot be fully extinguished. Though they abhor its destructiveness...