Word: fisted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During reading period last spring a fist fight broke out over use of the terminals, Jackson said. And several students were threatened with disiplinary action if they...
...strong and lovely reactive performance, and Harris, with his Tom Sawyer grin, convinces the viewer that this goof-off has residues of charm Patsy can find intermittently irresistible. Lange keeps on astonishing. Hefty and bawdy, with a macaw's cackle in good times and a face like a fist in bad, Lange plays Patsy as a cracker Wife of Bath, sated with sexual love and hungry for more. Her Patsy would be a subtle stunner in any season. Right now she is enough to make moviegoers forget the boys and toys of summer...
...hush fell over the ornate 19th century French Senate chamber as Charles Pasqua, Senate whip for the neo-Gaullist Rally for the Republic party, stepped up to the rostrum. Shaking one fist in the air and pointing his other hand accusingly at the government's front bench, Pasqua launched into one of the strongest attacks yet against President Francois Mitterrand's four-year-old Socialist government. "If it is proved that the French secret services are | implicated in this affair," he proclaimed, "then the responsibility could not be sought anywhere except at the level of the Premier...
...masquerading as chauffeurs. The would-be vacationers, handcuffed within moments after climbing into the cars, were all fugitives, wanted on charges ranging from embezzlement and grand theft to rape. Puno Aero Tours was a front for a sting operation by the U.S. Marshals Service's Fugitive Investigative Strike Team (FIST...
Late in the week the airport was the scene of a mass rally by hundreds of fist-shaking Shi'ite marchers organized by Hizballah. In presumably conscious imitation of the Shi'ite demonstrations outside the U.S. embassy in Tehran in 1979 and 1980, the militants trampled and burned an American flag and chanted, "Death to Israel and America, the Great Satan." Though their hatred of the U.S. was genuine enough, one purpose of their demonstration in the early summer heat was to steal a little thunder from Amal, with whom they are in conflict for the leadership of Lebanon...