Word: neck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Anthony Kiritsis, 44, a former car salesman, held a loan-company official with a shotgun harnessed to the victim's neck for 63 hours, demanded cancellation of a mortgage. Result: he gave up after immunity was promised; immunity was not granted...
...medium. His biting humor becomes manifest in "The Little14-Year-Old Dancer," of which both the finished product and a study in the nude take their places in the exhibit. The nude study highlights the ironic contrast between the elegant, flowing pose the young ballet student has struck (her neck imperiously thrust back and her arms joined together in a graceful arc behind her back) and the jutting angularity of her prepubescent body...
...entitled, not surprisingly, "Great Books of the 20th Century." Writing to the series' editorial board-including such luminaries as Norman Cousins and Jacques Barzun-Adler asked which modern authors might be worthy of the company of Homer, Galileo and Marx. He added: "I am willing to stick my neck out by nominating the authors and works from which a selection should be made...
...short on really super athletes, matmen like Princeton's John Seftnor, who is the man to beat. With any luck, Smith ought to finish second and could even nip the Tiger grappler if he can take advantage of Seftnor's one weakness. The Princeton heavyweight once broke his neck playing football. If he gets in trouble, he is incapable of bridging to avoid a pin. The only problem is, how do you get him on his back to begin with...
...these violent outbursts? Probably not. Yet a number of psychiatrists speculated that a powerful influence might have been the episode that occurred two weeks ago in Indianapolis. There, a 44-year-old auto salesman named Anthony Kiritsis wired the muzzle of a 12-gauge shotgun to the neck of a mortgage executive and held him hostage for 63 terror-filled hours (TIME, Feb. 21). When Indianapolis TV stations acceded to his demand that he be put on the air, Kiritsis crowed: "I'm a goddam national hero." He was scarcely that-and Indianapolis authorities quickly made him a goat...