Word: hid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dark moods and offering solicited judgments on his manuscripts. Eliot's method of divorcing her shimmers with the indecisiveness of The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock: he went off for a stint of teaching in the U.S., told his lawyers to handle matters in his absence and hid from her when he returned to England. She died in a mental institution...
...collection of short stories, the following passage stood out. He selected a part of black plastic frames an much thick, with hinged corner that stuck out from the cheek bones like a horse's blinders, pieces heavy enough to bend the ear. They were a kind of mask that hid half his face...
Many Mafia leaders are clearly worried. Late last week Leonardo Rimi, a mid-level Sicilian mobster and ally of Buscetta's, was gunned down as he hid in a farmhouse 30 miles from Palermo. Some Italian law enforcement officials interpreted the murder as a warning to Buscetta and to anyone else who might be tempted to talk. There was anxious speculation that the upheaval caused by Buscetta's revelations could produce a new round of all-out bloodletting...
...decades-old sprinkler system had been turned off for repairs, flames made their way through the building walls. It took 100 fire fighters two hours to control the blaze, which damaged only the first two floors of the structure. "Whoever did it might have had a key or hid in the building," said Fire Marshal Jim Badgett. In the basement where the fire originated, assassination memorabilia, including old photographs, were destroyed...
...talisman of the '50s as white socks and penny loafers. John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd wore them in the movie The Blues Brothers, and in Terms of Endearment Jack Nicholson seemed to have Wayfarers grafted onto his face. They became a mass pop phenomenon when Tom Cruise hid himself behind a pair in Risky Business in 1983. As a result, says Paul Brickman, the movie's writerdirector, kids are buying attitude, a "street-bad kind of look." In 1981 Bausch & Lomb produced 18,000 Wayfarers. This year the company expects to sell 600,000. Notes Gai Gherardi...