Word: ghostly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...still possible to offend anyone except the ghost of Avery Brundage and a few no-show Iron Curtain sports commissars by announcing the obvious, that the defunct Olympic ideal of amateurism has always been humbug? The prohibition against pros was not high-minded in its origin, it was high-hat: a snobbish social exclusion of riding instructors, fencing masters and the like who sweated for their keep and were considered high-level servants. It was intended to ensure that those who participated in this festival of running and jumping were the sons and daughters of gentlefolk. Other Olympic ideals...
When the issues raised do not involve search and seizure or the exclusionary rule, the court's direction is less predictable. Last week's decisions again produced varied results. One case seemed to involve a ghost from the '60s: draft resistance. The court upheld, 6 to 2, a 1982 law that denies federal education aid to students who fail to register with the Selective Service System. Six Minnesota students, who are among 400,000 nonregistrants, claimed that the law forced them to incriminate themselves if they wished to qualify for federal aid. Not so, said Chief Justice...
From this point on, things get complicated. Giselle meets the ghost of Poet John Berryman, still doing penance for his suicide jump into the Minnesota River. She also bears a demon child who invades the bodies of animals and people in order to kill all suspected enemies of ... Bob Glandier. In his tenth novel, Author Thomas M. Disch, 44, serves up such improbabilities with relish; the result is an entertaining nightmare out of Thomas Berger and Stephen King...
...FINAL SCENE of Spring Awakening, Melchior (Jeff Rossman) crouches in an area of the stage placed amid the audience. He faces a "graveyard" of actors, each sitting in front of a television set, eyes riveted on the screen. He listens to the ghost of his dead friend. Moritz (Christopher Moore) attempt to lure him center-stage, into the graveyard. Moritz, heavily made up, gesturing dramatically and Melchior appearing plain and vulnerable under a dim natural light, create a startling contrast. As Moritz describes the wonders of death, the escape from pain, suffering and memory; Melchior listens silently, confused and afraid...
...urge a fed eral grand jury in Cleveland to indict Jackie Presser, who succeeded Williams as president in 1983. The charge would be that as secretary-treasurer of Cleveland's Local 507, a post he still holds, Presser signed checks making large payments of union funds to "ghost employees" who did no work. Presser's uncle, Allen Friedman, already has been convicted of receiving $165,000 in such payments. Another man, John Nardi Jr., has pleaded guilty to taking $109,000 in the same scheme...