Word: lynch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...certainly don't want to see this turn into an opportunity to lynch The Crimson," he said. "That wouldn't be very productive...
Italians are fuming over the U.S. warplane that caused the death of 20 people in a cable car accident Thursday -- without the pilot even knowing it. Calls are going out for reining in American military operations in Italy, reports TIME Rome correspondent Greg Burke. "They want to lynch these guys," he says. "The Italians are really...
...Billy Lynch, a lovely, funny man (a hopeless, lifelong drunk), is dead in middle age. His funeral is just over, and his friends and family have gathered at a quiet bar in the Bronx to forgive his ghost and congratulate his widow. So Alice McDermott sets down at the outset of Charming Billy (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 280 pages; $22), a rueful shrug of a novel whose strong, shrewd opening pages should be taught in college writing classes...
...Stevens cannot direct this anger, for it permeates the town of Sam Dent. The children united the town through a sense of community. Without the bond provided by the children, the dark secrets of the San Dent are revealed. The tiny town recalls the isolated communities imagined by David Lynch, where normalcy masks taboos such as incest and adultery...
...nobody came," says Richard de Neufville, professor of transportation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. De Neufville reflects the orthodox view that markets, not mandates, should determine what is made and sold. That may be true, but it does nothing to solve the nation's pollution problems. Says Sheila Lynch, head of the Northeast Alternative Vehicle Consortium: "The government has to make the EV market happen, the same way it mandated air bags and catalytic converters...