Word: freaking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...days, when women's shapes were expected to be either pillows or posts, today's muscular woman might have been considered a freak. No more...
HOSPITALIZED. Vladimir Smirnov, 28, Soviet 1980 Olympic gold medal winner in the individual foil; in critical condition and "clinically dead" after a freak accident during a championship fencing match; in Rome. When Smirnov and West Germany's Matthias Behr lunged simultaneously, the tip of Behr's foil struck Smirnov's chest protector with unusual force. The blade snapped off at the tip; the jagged end then sprang upward, cut through Smirnov's wire-mesh face protector and sank between his left eye and left frontal lobe, severing an artery and piercing his brain...
LITTLE Claudio Aballay's penis received a good deal of media attention earlier this month. The Globe and other newspapers carried detailed description of the 1981 freak motorbike accident which left the 11-year-old Virginia boy castrated. Rushing to a little league soccer match aboard the back of his dad's cycle. Claudio lost his pecker as the bike narrowly avoided a collision with a truck. Somehow, the back of the truck caught against the boy's blue jeans, and rip! Underwear and all. The 18-month-old tragedy made headlines because of a miraculous epilogue...
...good to resist. Customers pay a monthly $9.95 for access to 80 channels and the Qube system, then an additional fee for each of the five subscription channels. There will soon be hundreds of pay-per-view attractions each month that could turn a video freak into an unintentional deadbeat. In conjunction with the Dallas city council, Warner-Amex has discussed setting a debt ceiling for customers. In Columbus, Warner-Amex officials already have a plan for cable-holies. When the tab exceeds $25 extra in a given month, they "give you a call as a friendly reminder," says...
Popularity is one measure of a performer's achievement, but in this case it is the least compelling. Pryor is not a flash, a freak, even a one-man trend; he is the soaring demon angel of movies, concerts and Grammy-winning albums. As a comedy monologuist, Pryor is without peer. Drawing his material from the black hole of ghetto life and death, Pryor uses his dramatic power to magnetize his listeners into the fire-flash fear of the moment-even as his skewed comic perspective offers distance, safety, reassurance. As a straight actor, he has the uncanny knack...