Word: drumfuls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They buried him in the classic style. His body was sealed in an empty 55-gal. oil drum. Heavy chains were coiled around the container, and holes were punched in the sides. Then the drum was dumped in the waters off Florida. It might have stayed on the bottom indefinitely-except that the gases caused by the decomposing body gave the drum buoyancy and floated it to the surface. Three fishermen found it in Dumfoundling Bay near North Miami Beach. Police checked out the fingerprints of the victim with the FBI and made the identification: John Roselli, 71, a Mafia...
...Ringo Starr, covered, as always, with hair. First he wanted his beard taken off, then his mustache. Then Ringo said, "Might as well keep goin'." When the deed was done-in Monaco, where Ringo now lives-the 36-year-old ex-Beatle percussionist was as hairless as a drum. The star was nervous at first, but he quickly found his baldness an advantage. "It's cooler, like," he explained. "This Riviera sun was goin' to me brain...
...seven levels of escalators, and the secret service and more DNC flunkies inside the hall. The guards at the alternate level were instructed to look out for pink newsmen descending. Few, even reporters with friends among the patronage-holders, could maneuver past the perimeter wall. While waiting you could drum up some interesting slice-of-life stories by roaming the balconies. But after a while the value of those "mood of Democratic America as seen through the loge section of Madison Square Garden" pieces starts to wane. Of course, there is some truth to the argument that policy-making...
...pulled older folks out of the water with bodies smashed, to have them die from internal injuries on the cold February night. One woman would testify, "to some the beating of rain on a tin roof is sweet music. To me it's like the beating of a death drum...
...nation's 200th birthday, it behooves us to do more than blow a trumpet and beat a drum. We should use the occasion to take stock of what is wrong with this country as well as what is right. Miller's play can help us do this. As the AST's director, Michael Kahn, said in an interview a few weeks ago, "I wanted to do The Crucible for our Bicentennial year. I think it's a terrific play, both hopeful for and critical of America...