Word: shafting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Manhattan they go by names like the Eagle's Nest, the Spike, the Mine Shaft and the Anvil. In San Francisco they are called the Brig and the Ambush. They are all homosexual "leather" bars that cater to macho style and sadomasochistic taste. Along with some bathhouses, sex-gadget shops, magazines and private clubs, they make an increasingly visible subculture in the gay world. That leather fringe is now also visible on movie screens, as the backdrop for a film that has been denounced and picketed by homosexuals: William Friedkin's Cruising, the story of a gay murderer...
...People in some of the houses couldn't even get us." Beth A. Kopley '81, president and found drive chairman for the station, said. "An elevator shaft in Holyoke Center got in the way of our signals. With our added power we'll be able to get through that," she added...
...Kennedy wants Carter onstage. We always seem to come back to show business. He wants to bait Carter to see whether he cannot get the President to impale himself fatally on some verbal shaft. Remember Richard Nixon and John Kennedy. Nixon had sweat on his upper lip, and people did not like his looks. Nixon may have lost the 1960 election in a few dismal seconds on the tube. There are a lot of people still around who wonder if that was any way to choose...
Amid the crumbling columns and pediments in the ancient city of Olympia, a shaft of sunlight glanced off a reflector one day last week and set fire to a slender torch. Next week, after a 5,000-mile flight from the Peloponnesian Peninsula to Athens to the U.S., and a 780-mile relay run from the Virginia Tidewater to the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York, the Olympic flame will ignite a huge torch on a pedestal at the Lake Placid High School. With that, the 13th Olympic Winter Games "will be officially under way. In 1932, tiny Lake Placid...