Word: palming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gritty, wind-torn burg near Palm Springs, Calif., a college student is found in a canyon, burned and shot to death. Los Angeles Police Department Detective Sidney Blackpool bridles at taking a case far from his own turf, but he cannot resist the six-figure job promised by the boy's millionaire father, which would allow him to quit the force. As usual, ex-Policeman Joseph Wambaugh keeps the uniforms blue and the humor black. Blackpool has also lost a son, and the key witness is another graying officer, Harry Bright, who now lies in an apparently irreversible coma. Also...
Jeffrey Stafford had served eight months in Florida's Palm Beach County stockade for aggravated assault when a judge offered him a choice: he could continue to do time in jail or he could go home. The catch? He would have to spend the remaining months of his sentence under electronic house arrest, with a radio transmitter attached to his ankle and a computer monitoring his movements. For Stafford, 28, it was no contest. Says he: "I had been in the stockade long enough to know I didn't ever want to go back...
...hands have a variety of specific functions. The right often holds the steel-rimmed glasses, occasionally manipulating them when Gorbachev pauses to search for a word. The left hand talks. It can lecture, pointing with one finger, or declaim with the palm up, or thump with its edge on the table, karate style, but always quite gently. It is seldom still. Sometimes both hands work together, the fingers clasped, drumming the table for emphasis...
Gullikson, from Palm Coast, Fla., beat Mecir 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-7 (5-7), 6-3 in just under three hours on Court No. 1 at the All England Club...
DIED. Charles LeMaire, 88, designer of glittering, sumptuous costumes for Hollywood films from 1943 to 1960 and, before that, for more than 60 Broadway shows, including the '20s extravaganzas of Florenz Ziegfeld; in Palm Springs, Calif. After successfully campaigning for an Oscar category in costume design (it started in 1948), he was nominated 16 times and won for All About Eve (1950), The Robe (1953) and Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing...