Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This is Len Bias . . . There's no way he can die. Seriously, sir, please come quick." That was Brian Tribble's desperate plea to a 911 operator as his friend, University of Maryland Basketball Star Len Bias, lay dying of cocaine intoxication in his dormitory on June 19. Last week Tribble surrendered to authorities after a grand jury indicted him on narcotics charges that included possession of cocaine with intent to distribute the drug. Tribble, 24, a former Maryland junior-varsity basketball player, is suspected of providing Bias with the coke that killed...
...QUICK AND THE DEAD...
Southern literature tends to be stamped with the obsessions of William Faulkner: doomed and crazy families, legacies of guilt and grudges. The Quick and the Dead, a first novel by North Carolina Academic Z. Vance Wilson, maintains that tradition. Wilson chronicles tribal hatred in an Alabama hill- country clan headed by a self-taught itinerant preacher, Robert Treadwell, who speaks in earthy parables and commits self-mutilation. The book begins and ends with fireball confrontations between the evangelist and his firstborn son, recalled by another son, Luke. The rest, rich in incident, sounds the depths of sexual betrayal and despair...
...them produce and direct Aliens. Certainly the film would not have been so effective without the experience they gained on The Terminator. Cameron developed his directorial manner in that film -- the low-angled camera, always moving with the action, never allowing the viewers to draw back into objectivity; the quick cutting that never lets them draw a deep breath. Says an admiring Scorsese: "What makes him interesting is his sense of surprise. Every scene builds on the last, then tops...
Boston drivers are steely, quick, opportunistic, decisive, but above all they do not look another driver in the eye. They probably do not drive as fast as we itinerants claim they do. A recent comparison showed that motorists in Columbus drive just as fast. However, in Columbus, everyone, including the outsiders, knows where he is going. In Boston, only the Bostonians do. That makes them seem to be going faster...