Word: gately
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...smashed it with a sickening thud on the younger girl's head, according to police. To the horror of her attackers, Jones crawled out through the car window. But the blow had fractured her skull and lacerated her brain. She staggered only a little way to a barbed-wire gate before collapsing. "I knew," Graham told police, "I couldn't leave the key witness to our crime alive." Armed with a Russian-made Makarov pistol, he fired twice. One bullet caught her right between the eyes. The entire episode was over in about two minutes...
...single-file line snaked from the first-year dining hall towards Emerson Gate at 1 p.m., with some students waiting more than 15 minutes for barbecue pork sandwiches and Chickwiches...
...transporting about 15 students between the Lamont Library gate and the Longwood Medical and Academic Area. Its window's door was shattered, but no passengers were injured...
...there was meaning and majesty in the Gate's fortnight at Lincoln Center. The actors, their voices tinged with the guilt of Irish laughter, restored the author to his homeland. Beckett tortured actors--burying them in hillsides or trash cans, reducing them to mouths or silence--and loved them too, by writing roles so concentrated, in settings so austere, that the performance is the play. And here some wonderful actors (Rosaleen Linehan in Happy Days, David Kelly in Krapp's Last Tape, Barry McGovern in Godot and Endgame) made two weeks of wonderful theater...
...Gussow's book the Irish actor Jack MacGowran says Beckett's subject was "human distress, not human despair." In fact, the Gate Theatre season--surely, in its scope, power and wit, this year's great theatrical event--proves that Beckett's subject was human beings. And Knowlson's biography proves that Beckett was one of them...