Word: parlorized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, even that twisted logic does not explain his cold-blooded murder of Kellie Mosier. A junior in high school, she was working at her first job, behind the counter of an ice-cream parlor. While Hagan was being initiated into gangs at the age of 13, she was still playing with dolls. Resisting pressure at school to join the gangs, she selected friends who shared dreams beyond the streets, and they stuck together for protection. Poised and attractive, she dreamed of being a fashion model...
...said we should burn with a hard, gemlike flame? How do you translate the phrase comme il faut? Failure to answer questions like these signifies a catastrophic ignorance, according to E.D. Hirsch Jr., a professor of English at the University of Virginia and inventor of the latest intellectual parlor game...
...choking on prudence and rectitude, clawing at his collar for air. Exile was the bittersweet point of those fond and misty monologues about Lake Wobegon, the tiny, imaginary Minnesota town "that time forgot, that the decades cannot improve." The wry truth was that Garrison Keillor, celebrated shy person, uncorkable parlor baritone, world's tallest radio humorist, could abide the rural Midwest only in memory. Much of his audience had made the same journey, or nearly, and we loved to be persuaded, as we listened on public radio each Saturday to the extraordinary two-hour variety show called A Prairie Home...
...18th birthday. Among them were Jon Lester, 17, Jason Ladone, 16, and Scott Kern, 17. Shortly before midnight, according to police, several guests, including Lester, left the party to drive a young woman home. Along Cross Bay Boulevard their headlights caught three blacks walking toward the New Park pizza parlor. "Niggers!" yelled the whites...
...pick up Griffith's paycheck from a construction site. On their way back to Brooklyn, their 1976 Buick broke down on Cross Bay Boulevard. Sylvester stayed with the car, and the other three went off to look for help. They stopped about three miles away at the pizza parlor, a ramshackle fixture in Howard Beach, ordered some slices of pizza and sat down...