Word: dying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nureyev would surprise most of his friends if he ever married anybody. He is loath to get involved with anything that interferes with his dancing. "Women are silly, every one of them," he exclaims, "but stronger than sailors. They just want to drink you dry and leave you to die of weakness." Marriage? "Why?" he says. "To ruin my life? To ruin some girl's life...
...there to strengthen world order." This is a clear warning to men everywhere who are struggling to liberate themselves from a "world order" of poverty end oppression. By attempting to maintain this world order our government is directly responsible for the immeasurable suffering of millions. Every day young Americans die in its defense...
...finals, Balsis' opponent was none other than Wimpy Lassiter. A master gamesman in the tradition of Robert Cannafax, who used to pull a knife and stab himself in his wooden leg while his opponent was shooting, Lassiter complained of a fever, sinusitis and ulcers. "Pool players all die of malnutrition at 50," he moaned. "I've got four years to live...
Each year, about 7,000 American babies less than a year old die of inborn heart defects. "Eighty percent of these infants could be saved by surgery," says Baylor University's Pediatrician Dan G. McNamara. The trouble is, Dr. McNamara told an international meeting on the heart and circulation of the newborn, that not enough physicians are trained to detect the sometimes subtle signs that a "cranky" baby may actually have severe deformities of the heart or major blood vessels...
Pistol-Packin' Mama. In the death scene, Stratas shed real tears and made her audience suffer with her as the strings surged upward to a great chord, punctured by Violetta's desperate cry: "Ah! gran' Dio! Morir si giovine [Ah, great God! To die so young]." After the performance, Teresa, smothered in flowers, wearing a green Florentine velvet gown, was seized by a hollow cough. "You see, Violetta is contagious," she said...