Word: fogging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...long a certainty on the gulf coast of Mississippi: if you died in Biloxi, you would be buried by Jeremiah O'Keefe; if you died in adjacent Gulfport, Bob Riemann would do the honors. A sometimes bitter rivalry existed between their families, but both names remained beacons in the fog of surprise and grief that overcame people upon the death of parents, spouses, siblings and children. Then something happened to Riemann's empire. His mortuaries still bore the name Riemann, and his sons Mike and David still managed the business. Hearses came and went trailing the usual plumes of sorrow...
...lawyers decided it would be unwise. Now, however, as the defendant in a wrongful-death suit filed by the families of murder victims Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, Simpson has no choice. So like some promise of light emerging from the fog of an obscure and unpredictable trial, there he was on the witness stand in a Santa Monica, California, courtroom last Friday morning, impeccably dressed, a little nervous--and who wouldn't be?--answering the first of what may indeed turn out to be thousands of questions. This is real life, so there was no made...
...Star Trek" episode, we would visit the world of Adolenscia. Beaming onto the planet in a fog of cannabis, we would stumble over mountains of discarded jeans, Beatles records and love beads. After five minutes of soaking in the atmosphere, one of our number, probably a faceless engineer of one sort or another, would be seized by a group of crazed teenagers while we looked at our feet. Later, while rescuing the poor engineer, we would learn that teenagers have no regard for justice, other people's feelings or the right way of greeting strangers. Beaming back to the ship...
...Montreat into high-speed car chases and cultivating a fascination for firearms and rock music and a taste for hard liquor. By the time he managed to get himself expelled from a tiny technical college in Texas for keeping a girl out overnight (their plane was socked in by fog), it had already become clear that an addiction to piloting small airplanes was overwhelming any commitment to real study. At 19 he persuaded his father to let him deliver a Land Rover from London to a religious hospital in Jordan. He made the trip steering with one hand and brandishing...
...fog-bound politicians and press people stuck in the terminal broke into two groups: those who believe movement of any sort is better than being at the mercy of forces beyond your control, and those willing to wait it out. After a week at the country's most expensive sleep-away camp for the politically addicted, this mass of cell phones, dirty laundry and self-importance was frustrated. How could the world turn if they were grounded? Paula Zahn reported that her husband couldn't see 41st Street from 42nd. "Let's get a car," she said to Morton Dean...