Word: dying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...belly. I then watch in horror as she attempts to press the 20th floor button. She hits 17, then 19, 22, 24, 26, 18, and then 12. I resolve that people whose fingers cannot function according to their will should ask for assistance in elevators, otherwise they deserve to die...
...Damn it, woman. You were hired by the elevator company to annoy me, weren't you? Admit it, she-demon spawn of Satan! Admit it or you die...
...high atop a throne in the far reaches of the cavernous stage perches the black-clad, thousand-year-old Emperor (Swiss Tenor Hugues Cuenod, making his company debut at 84). For the first time the Met stage, which has swallowed whole such formidable productions as Nathaniel Merrill's 1966 Die Frau ohne Schatten, looks cramped. As is its custom, the Met declines to reveal the spectacle's cost, but best guesses run to about $1.5 million...
...unwritten party rule that a presidential aspirant must not show his ambition. Hence, in the coming weeks, the three favored sons can be expected to continue a game of demurral and humility. But when the die is cast, the Mexican public will be looking for some sign that a democratic opening is on the agenda for Mexico's future leader...
...Westchester County, N.Y., where six boys from the area killed themselves in separate incidents over a four-month period in 1984. The impulse to imitate a suicide can be powerful, especially among adolescents, who tend to romanticize adventure and recklessness. "Kids see that this is a glamorous way to die, a way to get a lot of attention that they couldn't get in life," says Pamela Cantor, president of the National Committee for the Prevention of Youth Suicide. "They see a kid that is a nonentity suddenly get attention, and that is what they have been struggling...