Word: jails
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...until his father ships him to London to 'straighten out'. When a series of IRA bombs terrorizes the city, Gerry is one of four Irishmen wrongly accused, tortured, railroaded, and imprisoned by the nasty Brits. Gerry's da is imprisoned along with Gerry, and later dies in jail, all of which makes for excellent drama and is a great showcase for Lewis' mesmerizing intensity...
...unbroken lines of Girls-R-Fun clubs and joints presenting "250 Platinum Girls" throw some of the city's sobriety into question. When Billy Payne appeared on Moscow TV live (via satellite) this year, extending "a most warm Southern welcome," he was standing just across from the new city jail and next to a topless...
...squelch online pornography and make the Net safe for children by banning "indecent" content. But the legislation was so vague and broad that uploading Ulysses to the World Wide Web could have been construed as a felony offense punishable by a $250,000 fine and two years in jail. If that's the kind of treatment James Joyce would get, what hope would there be for poor Bianca and her Smut Shack...
...from getting last year's wheat crop to market or this year's crop in the ground. Last fall, when Dean tried to retrieve stored wheat from the silos at his grandfather's [foreclosed] farm, his father Richard, 47--who later turned himself in and is now in jail awaiting trial on Freemen-related charges--chased him off at gunpoint...
...Anita Loos and John Emerson, who established his film character: half Tom Sawyer, half Teddy Roosevelt. They also devised the set pieces that made his name--as in the climax to the delightful The Matrimaniac (1916): his fiance is locked in a hotel room; the preacher is in jail; the police have chased Doug up a telephone pole; so he tightrope-walks on the telephone wires, persuades a lineman to plug in a conference call to the jail and the hotel, and voila, they're married...