Word: necks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...January 1990 crash of an Avianca jet near Kennedy Airport was the sort of local disaster that gets TV news departments pumped up -- and often brings in Emmys. But the first station to arrive at the crash site in Cove Neck, L.I., was not one of the big boys from New York City. It was a crew from News 12, a 24-hour cable channel seen only on suburban Long Island. One of the channel's satellite trucks happened to be half a mile away when word of the crash came over the police scanner. The crew raced...
...Zimmerman continues to make waves at the NCAA tournament in Athens, Ga. On Tuesday, the junior from Great Neck, N.Y. dispatched the tournament's fourth-seed Brian MacPhie 1-6, 6-2, 6-0. Yesterday, in a tremendous upset, Zimmerman defeated second-ranked Al Parker from Georgia...
Whose Life is it Anyway? relates the story of Ken Harrison (Tom Chick), a sculptor who has become paralyzed from the neck down in a car accident. Harrison's realization that he will never recover leads him to prefer dying to continuing to live as a creative mind trapped in an immobile body. In addition, Harrison feels dehumanized in the antiseptic atmosphere of the hospital, where compassion is considered unprofessional. His request to die is viewed by his doctors as another symptom of shock--something to be treated with valium. Only through a court order does Harrison finally receive...
...describes herself as a healing therapist, but to her landlord Sara Dale is a pain in the neck. British Chancellor of the Exchequer Norman Lamont discovered via London's tabloids last week that he had rented his million- dollar home in Kensington to a tenant who the News of the World claimed conducted kinky sadomasochistic sessions in the basement. Dale denied she was a prostitute and explained that she helps people with a variety of problems, not all of them sexual. But she admitted that her techniques occasionally require that she use whips and chains on her clients -- a service...
...George Foreman spoiled? No, folks, just nicely ripened. He is a huge man, 6 ft. 4 in. and something like 250 lbs., with a shiny, shaved skull and a neck wider than his head, including his ears. He says coming into the ring too slim would be a mistake. He's teasing. He does that a lot, making it easy for reporters to laugh. Call him a fatted calf, call him a freak show, and he chuckles. "I like being me," he says now. "I have gotten rid of all problems like leaves hanging off a tree...