Word: pal
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ANGELES -- John Dunton, the so-called O.J. MYSTERY WITNESS who went to jail rather than talk to a grand jury investigating O.J. Simpson's pal Al Cowlings, is appearing less and less mysterious. An L.A. County district attorney told TIME he interviewed Dunton in late 1987 while prosecuting a jailhouse murder. "It was clear he had zippo credibility," recalls the D.A., describing Dunton as "a wannabe informant" and worse: "He's a flake...
...review of old court documents reveals that O.J.'s pal Al Cowlings has at least one friend implicated in organized crime, according to ABC News. In the same court papers, Cowlings admitted he had a cocaine problem. Cowlings' lawyer, however, asserted on TV that his client had overcome the problem...
...cause them to switch off their machines. Davidson & Associates' Math Blaster, a venerable series that has sold 1.6 million copies since 1983, freely borrows video-game techniques. The latest title, In Search of Spot, sends kids on a quest to rescue the Blasternaut's caterpillar-like space pal. The correct answer to a math problem puts the user closer to freeing Spot from the Trash Alien's ship. The Even More Incredible Machine, from Sierra On-Line, confronts users with more than 150 challenges to their ingenuity, ranging from launching a toy rocket to shooting a basketball through a hoop...
...Boulevard of Broken Dreams (Viking; $22.95), Paul Alexander, who has written books on Andy Warhol and Sylvia Plath, argues that Dean was a homosexual whose romances with starlets were so much unfelt publicity. Alexander scavenges for tatty, tattly tidbits, like the story about the night Dean and a pal picked up a one-legged girl at a bar and ... well, the curious may turn to page 203 for the punch line. And to page 286 for a photograph of a naked young man, supposedly Dean, fondling himself in a tree...
Nearly all Dawidoff's sources agree that Berg was good company and an intriguing storyteller. He had been tangential to big events. He could talk politics, philosophy and sports. Babe Ruth was a pal, as were Nelson Rockefeller and Chico Marx. Eventually the reader comes to see Berg as a one- man March of Time...