Word: scene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deputies dispatched to the Buckner's dairy farm five miles away discovered an even more gruesome scene: Kirk's mother and his three younger brothers had all been killed by gunshots to the head. The body of Kirk's father lay by the side of a gravel road, midway between the two farms...
...sound of a small plane overhead, some of the 15 to 20 swimmers in the open sea 20 miles off the Dominican Republic gestured frantically for help. The plane was unable to put down on water, however, and its occupants could only look on in helpless horror at the scene unfolding beneath them. The swimmers, passengers on a sinking people-smuggling ship bound for Puerto Rico, were under siege by dozens of sharks. "In one instance we saw a shark literally throw someone in the air and then attack the person," recalled one of the witnesses, Eugenio Cabral, the Dominican...
...OUTSIDE the New York literary scene are familiar with the esoteric pleasures of the most elite of the intellectual circles, those New York Times reporter William B. "Willie" Weesel knows so well. The group of us convenes with Willie every Friday morning for brunch and coffee at the U.N. commissary to chat over the latest gossip--the rising hemlines, perhaps, or the plunging deutchsmark...
...National Scene: Following a pair of wins over B.U. and Cornell this past week, Harvard moved up to fifth place in the Soccer America poll, and sixth in the Intercollegiate Soccer Association rankings--its highest rating all season. The Crimson's closest Ivy competitor is Columbia, ranked sixth and tenth, respectively...
...only memorable scene in the film is Billy Crystal's hilarious portrayal of Miracle Max, the wizard who has been fired from his royal position. Max helps bring the movie's hero back from the dead with a chocolate-covered pill, but Crystal's cameo is a diamond which sparkles in an otherwise unremarkable film...