Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz will direct the von Bulow defense from his Law School office, keeping tabs on a three-ring circus of a trial that has all the makings of a cheap courtroom novel: lust, greed, syringes, an heiress' fortune, a bitter maid, and vindictive step-children...
...something, anything else... Fail miserably. It is best if you fail at an early age--say, fourteen. Early, critical disillusionment is necessary so that at fifteen you can write long haiku sequences about thwarted desire." But in the middle of all the wisecracking remain passages that ring out with such truth that they communicate directly to the reader the pleasure of literary creation, "those brief, fragile, untested moments of exhilaration when you know: you are a genius." On the basis of her first collection, Lorrie Moore clearly qualifies...
Rather than chase would-be criminals, these citizen crime watchers are expected to let trained officers handle the rough stuff. Nonetheless, when Jerry Hester, a Hughes Tool Co. executive, heard four shots ring out while on patrol in his East Houston neighborhood on March 3, he could not resist the impulse to take action, however dangerous. As he radioed his base station --Hester's handle was "Stringbean," the base was "Country Cousin"--a white Chevrolet Monza with three occupants sped past him. He followed at high speed. Country Cousin, actually Howard Petty, 61, security director for the Eastwood Civic Association...
DIED. George London, 64, commanding bass-baritone with a rich, dark-hued voice and the dramatic presence to convey the menace of Scarpia in La Tosca, the majesty of Wotan in The Ring and the elegance of Count Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro; after a long illness; in Armonk, N.Y. He found success quickly, with critically praised debuts at Europe's leading opera houses and New York City's Metropolitan. In 1960 he became the first American to sing Boris Godunov at Moscow's Bolshoi Theater. In 1967 a paralyzed vocal cord cut short his career; he turned...
...candidate for a humanitarian of the year award by the picture's end. Must we really believe that these Hell's Angels are so sympathetic and intelligent that they could displace Doug Flutie as the reigning icon of America's youth? In the midst of this three-ring circus of bikers, drug dealers and juvenile delinquents-come-lately, Rocky sticks out like a biker in a tuxedo--or a T.V. movie director spraying creative graffiti on the silver screen. We mourn for him not only because he is trapped inside a horribly defective body, but because he is confined...