Word: scatteredness
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Yet there were stabs of trouble. Back in 1970, when he was 16, Bobby was arrested in Hyannis Port for smoking marijuana and placed on 13 months' probation. In 1979 his younger brother David, then 24, was found dazed and bruised outside a sleazy Harlem hotel, packets of heroin...
There is nothing new about wife beating. It has always happened, everywhere. Often it is accepted as a natural if regrettable part of woman's status as her husband's property. Throughout history unlucky women have been subjected to the whims and brutality of their husbands. The colloquial phrase "rule...
Yet there was nothing quixotic in the final odyssey of Philippine Opposition Leader Benigno ("Ninoy") Aquino Jr. He may even have known that his murder (if such were to be his fate) would galvanize his countrymen. And so it did. Hour after hour, for three long days last week, the...
Only a few days before, the May flies had been sighted on the river. Their appearance was a cause for some jubilation in Last Chance, Idaho, a village in the resort area of Island Park (pop. 154) that is perched along the banks of Henry's Fork of the...
At the penultimate minute, another empty theater was found. Cast, friends and well-wishers trekked 21 blocks accompanied by an upright piano in a truck. Blitzstein and the piano took the sceneryless stage, and as the composer played the score, the actors, scattered through the house, stood up and delivered...