Word: gurneys
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...abduction and shooting of a Houston restaurant manager and the wounding of his wife, devoured a final meal of French toast, sausage, eggs, French fries and six brownies. Then he was led into the baby- blue death chamber and spread-eagled on a gray gurney. He was tied down with white leather straps and ace bandages. As a dozen state officials and reporters watched, Wayne Scott, the prison system's deputy operations chief, appeared in a doorway and intoned, "Warden, you may proceed." A microphone was lowered and the condemned man offered a brief prayer as his last statement. Then...
...exquisitely that he served as a model for an ASL textbook. His eloquence meant ) less than nothing when he ended up in a San Diego hospital with an AIDS- related crisis. Not only did his attendants fail to provide an interpreter, they also tied his hands to a gurney. Trapped for hours in the classic nightmare of I-want-to-scream-but-some one-has-his-hand-over-my-mouth, Canady died shortly after friends found and released...
...Gurney Professor of Political Science RobertPutnam said, "I thought that the vice presidentdid very well, better than I expected, both intone and substance...
...better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all? The question is not exactly new, but it has rarely been posed more deftly and disarmingly than in the 21st work of the wistful comedist A.R. Gurney, whose best previous plays (Sweet Sue, Love Letters) also centered on the disruptive consequences of love unpursued. Gurney is often pegged as an elegist for the waning Wasp. In Later Life he makes great efforts to usher in characters outside that stereotype. They are Irish, Jewish, Texan and techno-nerd; one woman is a lesbian, one man gay, and these...
...Made in America is a deft comedy. MUSIC Chris Isaak is again steeped in cowboy blues. TELEVISION Two men dying of AIDS film a searing account of their last days. BOOKS Lenin's Tomb is a superb account of the fall of the U.S.S.R. THEATER Later Life shows A.R. Gurney at his wistful best...