Word: feuded
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Maher's closest neighbor in East Fishkill, N.Y., his most recent U.S. residence, describes him as "a miserable bastard" who turned a property-line dispute into an open feud. "Maher and his wife would stand outside my house and scream curses and give me the finger," says Leonard Levelle, 70, recalling that the police had to be called in to mediate several times. On one occasion, says Levelle, "Maher knocked me down, started hitting me with his forearm and told me he would get a gun and kill me." Maher's first wife Marla, who divorced him in 1991, alleging...
Luckily for the citizens of Massachusetts, Governor A. Paul Cellucci vetoed these changes and preserved the original bill. Before lauding him for his integrity, though, it ought to be noted that many other considerations appeared to be at stake, including an ongoing feud between the governor and Birmingham. His action appeared to be more a vengeful stab at Birmingham than a rational policy choice...
...FEUD OF THE WEEK...
...evening's menu: carpaccio, swordfish steak and hot milk for dessert). Her weight, of course, is hardly the only thing that has made her a star of the gossip pages. There were the slew of canceled concert appearances, the reports of erratic behavior, a faltering singing voice and a feud and chilled relations with her half sister Lorna Luft, author of a warts-and-all family memoir. No one ever said being the daughter of Judy Garland (dead of an overdose at age 47) was easy. But for a walking, talking soap opera, you'd have to look pretty hard...
Which is not quite the way it sounds in Luft's tell-all book, Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir (which, among other things, recounts Lorna's role in getting Liza into rehab). The two aren't talking now, though Liza doesn't describe it as a feud: "We're sisters, and we're going through something." She won't even bad-mouth the book, which she claims she hasn't read. "It's her point of view. I think it was probably cathartic for her to write it." Catharsis or not, Liza refused to join her sister...