Word: hops
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THERE IS A remarkable scene in the Belgian documentary Revolution or Death, in which a jeep full of El Salvadorean soldiers drives up to an outdoor meeting of peasants. The soldiers hop out of the jeep and at the order of their commanding officer, open fire on the unarmed group of men, women and children. When the gathering has been dispersed, and a number of its participants maimed or murdered, a soldier takes a machine gun out of the jeep and places it in the arms of a dead man. Then the soldiers take pictures...
...find it tiresome to plan their lives around bus schedules and the availability of friends' cars. Although Wellesley brochures cheerfully announce that metropolitan Boston is only 35 minutes away, there can be limited spontaneity in going out because of the planning involved. After all, there is no "T" to hop on out there...
...striped-pants morning suit for him. No Priscilla of Boston gown for her. No Rose Garden reception for either of them. Just a short hop to Manhattan's supreme court for a civil ceremony, he in jeans and red sweatshirt, she in scarlet cowboy boots, black sweater and slacks. Then it was back to the barre for Ronald P. Reagan, 22, a Joffrey II dancer, who has been rooming for more than a year with Doria Palmieri, 29, a California-born literary researcher. The impromptu wedding, attended by one friend and a Secret Service agent, "seemed like the right...
DIED. Victor Sen Yung, 65, San Francisco-born actor who played the "No. 1 Son" of Movie Sleuth Charlie Chan in the 1930s and 1940s and later was noted for his role as the cook Hop Sing on the long-running TV series Bonanza; of suffocation; in North Hollywood, Calif...
...long and strange fascination for him. Clues began to appear when he was a young man. First, he noticed that a high-school girl friend had an Oscar on her mantelpiece, although her father worked as a parking at tendant. Then, during his college years, he was a bell-hop at a summer resort, where a middle-aged man in poor health taught him to play chess. The man could play several games at once. blindfolded--which seemed the only extraordinary thing about him until the FBI came to the hotel and the newspapers announced that...