Word: forte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When the FBI issued its annual list of the ten most crime-ridden cities in the nation last September, three of them were in South Florida: Miami (pop. 347,000) was in first place, West Palm Beach (pop. 63,000) was fifth and Fort Lauderdale (pop. 153,000) was eighth. Miami last year had the nation's highest murder rate, 70 per 100,000 residents, and this year's pace has been even higher...
...September, as both sides prepared for a further INS hearing, Macias-Rosales flew to Miami and went to visit Cindy, who had been living for more than 18 months in a "neutral" foster home in Fort Lauderdale. Says Macias-Rosales' attorney, Elizabeth Baker of Miami: "It was a very emotional reunion. Cindy read to her and showed off her dolls." Later they went for a walk. And never returned. Subsequently, Attorney Baker confirmed that Cindy was in a "nice quiet place" in Mexico with her mother and a younger brother and sister. The Johnses and their attorney are outraged...
Klein has filed kidnap charges with the Fort Lauderdale police, and last week a federal judge ordered a hearing on contempt charges against Macias-Rosales...
Indeed, so powerful has that image been that one sometimes forgets how splendid he has been as a character actor. The military martinet of Fort Apache, the cold-eyed outlaw of Once Upon a Time in the West, even the hilariously befuddled herpetologist "Hopsy" Pike of The Lady Eve-they all light up in one's memory as the spirit that animated them flashes in Fonda's eyes. Without raising his voice he gives a bravura performance as he moves from depressed withdrawal to momentary rages, from the struggle to express affection to the struggle not to express...
...cold April dawn in 1979, the new, integrated Army arrived at Fort McClellan, Ala. The jittery recruits of Alpha Company, 87 men and 76 women mostly between the ages of 18 and 22, stepped off the ramshackle buses and began basic training together. They shared barracks (on alternate floors), mess halls and bivouacs, and a few occasionally made clandestine love in the laundry room or the latrines. When the six weeks of marching, spitting, polishing, obstacle coursing and weapons training were over, and the tears, exhaustion, pride and exhilaration forgotten, Writer Helen Rogan asked their commanding officer, a woman, what...