Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...world, but they are admirable in specific cases of injustice." And he makes such homilies seem the genuine beliefs, born of experience, of his characters. Keneally is equally at home, if less exciting, in lower-middle-class urban Australia and the locker rooms of also-ran athletes. These characters ring true, but they are not especially interesting. That, however, seems to be part of his strategy. The grayness of this humdrum world only makes the clashing colors of the Kabbelskis' lives more compelling. Keneally's real triumph is to portray, through one family's delusions, the lingering poison...
...said the zinged Andrew at a press conference last week. "It's got to start somewhere." Currently "over the moon" and hoping for a late-summer wedding in Westminster Abbey, the couple kissed happily for the cameras. Then the bride-to-be gave reporters a look at her engagement ring, a $37,000 oval ruby surrounded by ten drop diamonds that Andrew helped design. Asked what they saw in each other, the Prince fumbled for an answer. "Wit? Charm? And good looks?" prompted his future wife. "Yes, probably," he replied, "and the red hair." The girl who would be Princess...
...players, or their successors, are back on the scene. Furthermore, federal prosecutors are just starting to make use of long-enacted criminal conspiracy laws. In one of the first such cases, six reputed members of the Gambino crime family were found guilty last week of running a car-theft ring. Castellano, of course, had been convicted earlier by a different kind of jury...
Reichley said that the media's emphasis on Brown coeds is unwarranted because the Ivy League women constituted a minority of the women involved in the alleged prostitution ring. He also added that that there were only six other Brown students identified in the photos, not eight as police have stated...
Reichley said that the four students whom university officials have contacted have denied participation in the prostitution ring. He said the other two students have not yet been reached...