Word: laying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lay, La-La Land -- this part of the West Coast, as its nicknames imply, has long been stuck with the reputation of a cultural slide area where not much is deep, permanent or altogether serious. This is the price of being the world's fantasy mill. Its origins lie in the fierce distrust of popular culture (which Los Angeles epitomizes) among New York City intellectuals of the '40s and '50s. In fact, one can make a most impressive list of contemporary Los Angeles artists, from Richard Diebenkorn to the young < sculptor Mark Lere. But what the city lacked...
...Lucas was the most monstrous of them all. After his arrest in 1983 on a weapons charge, the one-eyed drifter startled Texas police by confessing to scores of aimless murders in 27 states. Soon lawmen from around the country were converging on Texas to see if Lucas might lay claim to unsolved killings in their jurisdictions. He was jetted to murder locations, and as he spoke impassively of stranglings and dismemberments, police gave him meals, gifts and national notoriety...
Cohen says that I "readily admit" that the book is not for the lay public. When? Where? It's not for Cohen, that's for sure. But then he seems to have such a clear idea about what it ought to have been, maybe he's just too smart for mere reviews. He oughta write a book! Martin Linsky Lecturer in Public Policy
...repeated warnings from Manila and decided to return to the Philippines to challenge Marcos, death sentence or no. Hardly had Ninoy's plane landed in Manila when he was met by a group of soldiers and hustled out of the plane. Seconds later, shots rang out, and Ninoy Aquino lay dead on the tarmac...
...Enrile and Ramos staged their revolt in Manila, Cory, 350 miles away in Cebu, at first lay low in a Carmelite monastery. But as the revolution continued, she hurried back to Manila, ready to take charge. While her advisers collapsed in exhaustion around her suburban bungalow and a gunfight continued less than a block away, the President-elect serenely announced that she planned to take a shower and get changed. Then she had herself driven to her inauguration in her white Chevrolet van, stopping at every red light...