Word: kinda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year-old ex-songstress-actress and co-author of the bestselling autobiography. His Eye Is on the Sparrow, admitted that she was dead broke, ill with a heart condition, yet never happier. "I'm not afraid to die, honey," said she. "In fact, I'm kinda looking forward to it; I know the Lord has his arms wrapped around this big fat sparrow...
...stolen car. Pretty soon, as the script commands, she "tantalizingly presses her body against the deputy's and eases his own gun from its holster. The movement of her shirt rubbing against him opens the front revealingly." "See?" she asks tauntingly. "You should've searched me. You kinda missed something, didn't you, copper?" The movie thus plants itself squarely in the category of the big leer (TIME, June...
Racked by uncertainty and homesickness, Kinda decided to go back to his washtub beside the beige waters of the Congo River. Kanza refused him permission and threatened all sorts of fearsome punishments unless Kinda resumed his job as the delegation's private laundryman. With the help of a kindly New York policeman, Kinda fled to Idlewild airport, got aboard a plane for Paris...
Landing in Paris, Kinda wildly demanded protection from threatened assassination. The police put him on the next plane bound for Brazzaville, capital of the former French Congo. Arriving in Brazzaville, Kinda declared he could not cross over to Leopoldville because he might be subjected to "undignified treatment" by Lumumba supporters. He assured everyone who would listen that he was not a politician and that politics "are too complicated for me." Then he got drunk. At week's end, after his 15-day venture into the disturbing world beyond the rim of his washtub, ex-Diplomat Kinda was sleeping...
...gates of his estate bugged so that he can hear in his bedroom anyone who might be prowling about, and another electronic device tells him when people have entered his property. He once discouraged a visit from CBS's Person to Person show, which he describes as "kinda nosy." He prefers to keep the place to himself, his wife Georgia, his 13-year-old daughter Valentina, and three servants. Also on the premises: a stuffed gorilla, five dogs, a macaw, and a parrot that occupies a refrigerator during spells of warm weather...