Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hang pictures on the walls, which at Harvard is punishable either by death or organic chem, whichever you prefer. As I found out a few weeks ago, though, a tack hammer and a screwdriver make a mean can-opener, which is much more fun than the traditional Swiss Army knife...
...USAir passenger Joanne Yallum of Pittsburgh, seatmate of Danny Christophers Walters, who was arrested yesterday and could be charged with air piracy. Walters, drunk and waving a knife, forced the plane to make an unscheduled stop in Nashville...
...lawsuits and seesawing stock prices. And now the new rules, part of a bid to stop smoking among teenagers, establish a precedent the industry has feared for decades. Clinton signed an Executive Order that subjects tobacco to regulation by the Food and Drug Administration. As a twist of the knife, the FDA claims its new authority over cigarettes by defining them as the delivery system for an addictive drug, nicotine. Alphabetically, that would put it after morphine and right before opium. Not exactly wholesome company...
...supporting characters are less fully developed but no less perversely compelling. Ronet as the monstrous Philipe is the model of the Ugly American, throwing around money, speaking loudly, insulting everyone around him. His knife-in-the-back treatment of Tom-- he sets Tom adrift on a dinghy, embarrasses him by making him seem ill-bred, makes him steer the boat while he has sex with Marg-- makes him hard to like by any standards. The hapless Marg is wholly pitiable, toting around a guitar to which she croons mercilessly, plotting out her book on Fra Angelica, becoming a pawn...
Just weeks after filing for divorce from her husband and manager Jack Gordon, LATOYA JACKSON has fled to an L.A. safe house--"far away from Jack"--where she is describing their marriage as short on love and long on intimidation. "He would beat me, threaten me, put a knife to my neck," says Jackson. "I was afraid if I left him he would kill me." Jackson wed the ex-con in 1989 and plunged into a string of profitable but cheapening enterprises, including launching a psychic hotline and posing for Playboy. "He controlled all my bank accounts," Jackson says...