Word: lording
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...love being around them," he wrote in his 1988 autobiography, Moonwalk. "There always seem to be a bunch of kids over at the house, and they're always welcome. They energize me -- just being around them." When he welcomed handicapped kids to the ranch, he was no condescending Lord Bountiful looking for a tax write-off; he was their peer, and they were friends he could play with, sing to -- in the purest sense of the word, love...
...bride goes off to her rough-hewn, rural marriage bed. This journey is made by a daughter of a highborn member of Parliament to avoid being a pawn in political maneuverings by her father (played with poignancy and ruthlessness by artistic director Newton). She rejects a lord in favor of the family gardener, a sweet-natured man whose heart belongs, hopelessly, to her sister-in-law. The deliberately oblique text may frustrate audiences who want to know exactly what is happening. It gathers mounting power in three scenes: the parliamentarian's downfall, a Hogarthian country wedding and the tentative, unhopeful...
...ended a 13-day nightmare for Harvey Weinstein, the trim, elegant and, under normal circumstances, witty 68-year-old chief executive of Lord West ) Formalwear, one of the country's largest tuxedo manufacturers. Charged with his kidnapping were Fermin Rodriguez, 38, a collarmaker at Lord West; his younger brother Antonio, 29; and Fermin's girlfriend Aurelina Leonor, 44. The Rodriguez brothers didn't seem to have a personal grudge against Weinstein; Fermin reportedly told police his boss was a "nice guy." All they wanted was $3 million...
...family and rotating teams of detectives, they spent hours analyzing the calls. A woman, whom police believe to be Leonor, conducted most of the phone negotiations in a fractured English that sometimes defied interpretation. But her references to "Mr. Harvey," a term used by some of the employees at Lord West, suggested that insiders were involved in the abduction. Police officials, fearing that it might jeopardize Weinstein's safety, held back from questioning workers at the factory, but more than 100 detectives prowled the city in search of the executive, following the cryptic clues he had given them...
...considered unless the Bosnian government had returned to good-faith negotiations. "We're making it very, very clear to him," said a senior official. "The cavalry is not coming to take back his country for him." The co-chairmen of the negotiations, Thorvald Stoltenberg representing the U.N. and Lord Owen for the European Community, say they are committed to allocating 30% of Bosnia and Herzegovina's territory to Muslims, even though they hold only about 10% now. Izetbegovic considers 30% insufficient. "There is no final map yet," said Owen...