Word: duking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is no truly conclusive evidence that the ready availability of guns increases the amount of crime. Nonetheless, most experts agree with Philip Cook, a professor of public policy at Duke University, that the presence of guns increases the severity of crimes committed. Common sense suggests as much: no other hand weapon is so efficient at killing a human being. Guns particularly are a factor in more than half the murders that result from arguments between husbands and wives or other people who know each other...
...gathering legal onslaught is reminiscent of the mid-1950s, when lawsuits, particularly those by Robert Mitchum and Heiress Doris Duke, severely dampened Confidential magazine's penchant for unfounded gossip. Confidential's circulation plummeted from 4.1 million to about 300,000, and the magazine folded in 1969. The Enquirer boasts that the Burnett case is the first libel trial since Generoso Pope Jr. bought the tabloid in 1952. But that is because it occasionally settles out of court...
...Duke 75, Alabama...
Based on the music of Duke Ellington...
Nuclear energy is being released at Broadway's Lunt-Fontanne Theater, but no one need fear anything more drastic than delight. Sophisticated Ladies has no book and seems not to need one. It relies on incendiary dancing, notably tap, an onstage Big Band blast under the baton of Duke Ellington's son Mercer, and some 36 of the Duke's tunes of seductive genius...