Word: rocked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just when corporate raider Paul Bilzerian seems to have hit rock bottom, his fall from grace goes even farther. Last month Bilzerian, 39, was convicted by a Manhattan jury on nine counts of securities fraud, which carry a potential 45-year prison sentence and $2.25 million in fines. Then last week the Securities and Exchange Commission filed a civil lawsuit accusing him of illegal stock transactions involving seven companies, including his 1988 takeover of Singer. The charges range from lying to the SEC about how he financed his raids to trying to hide the number of shares he owned...
...been in Beirut long before the apartment house in which he was living was destroyed by a bomb; near the end of his stay in Jerusalem, as he was being driven to a farewell lunch by his wife, his car windshield was shattered by a thrown rock. Such experiences add dizzying moments to Friedman's crowded, fascinating memoir...
...themselves, when gay issues were never discussed, will never come again." That is undoubtedly true. But most gays would also agree with one of Kirk's main points: "Success will only come when we've managed to push up and down to the other side the huge national rock of hatred...
Amid a tang of perspiration and perfume, 60 women in shiny tights and baggy T shirts strut to the strains of Jailhouse Rock. In the large, carpeted room, the instructor, sleek as a seal in a chocolate-colored unitard, takes the Elvis song from the record player when it finishes and puts on George Michael's Kissing a Fool. She cocks a hip and asks the women: "Will anyone else be kissing a fool today?" She is answered by a breathless chorus: "Yeah!" "I know I will...
...they came upon an emerald pool in the forest, a sweet, shaded secret. Toad drank water for half an hour without stopping. That night they slaughtered a goat and feasted. Lutupen hung the remaining goat meat in a tree above him as he slept curled up on a flat rock, and in the morning Toad found leopard tracks around the camp...