Word: sped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...elevators. As Mackey hid inside, the demonstrators continued their verbal assault in the hall and pasted "Mackey Mouse" stickers on the walls. Minutes later, someone spied the president escaping out a rear exit, and the crowd followed him outside the building, where an unmarked police car rescued him and sped away...
...waved his pistol toward the menacing street. "Get a police car! Get a car!" cried the men holding Hinckley. Handcuffing Hinckley and throwing a jacket over his head, the officers shoved him toward one police car, but found the rear door locked. They pushed him into a second and sped off to Washington police headquarters, some 30 blocks away...
...Lesko met William C. Nicholls, 32, a church organist, at a downtown hotel. They commandeered his sports car and drove to Blue Spruce Lake outside Pittsburgh; they shot him, weighted him with rocks, and dropped him through a hole in the ice while he was still alive. Finally they sped past Patrolman Leonard Miller's squad car three times, until he gave chase and stopped them. They shot Miller dead at the side of the highway. After their conviction for his murder, Travaglia leaned over a courtroom rail and asked Prosecutor Tim Geary: "Are you happy? I'll be back...
...contingent of "trainers" sent to El Salvador by Washington. The next day, four men in a gray Toyota pickup truck swerved past the U.S. embassy in San Salvador and raked the bunker-like building with gunfire. No one was injured, no shots were fired back, and the truck quickly sped off. Meanwhile, in cities across the U.S., opponents of American aid to El Salvador's military-civilian junta laid plans for teach-ins, marches, vigils and hunger strikes. It all had a familiar ring...
...series of tableaux, the colorfully costumed actors moving dutifully into position, one character usually wandering aimlessly in the middle. Act One has a lot of exposition, a lot of aimless wandering: in Act Two the plot perks up and Mayer's comic invention peaks. Certainly this is sped along by the appearance of the Genie of the Lamp, whose entrances and exits have been hilariously choreographed by Bonnie Zimmering as a series of campy musical-comedy moves, half-heartedly tossed off by the very tall and funny Kate Levin--elaborately bored, I guess, is how you'd describe...