Word: spencers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...then it was the Thirties, and people were very sad, for they had nothing to eat; and so they went to the movies. And for the next two decades they saw Cary Grant and Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, Jimmy Stewart and Bette Davis in screwball comedies like "Bringing Up Baby," "The Philadelphia Story," "Adam's Rib," "The Awful Truth," and "It Happened One Night," among many others, and these were not just funny physically, they were also witty...
...Spencer Jouhyung...
...killing thousands of desperately ill AIDS patients. Now, a mere two years after the FDA relaxed some of its standards and established a "fast track" to rush drugs from the test tube to the bedside, a growing number of activists are changing their minds. "We were naive," admits Spencer Cox, of the New York City-based Treatment Action Group. "There are standards for a reason...
...attempted his first assassination. Catching the Jewish president of the Marks & Spencer department store chain, Joseph Edward Sieff, in the bathroom, Carlos aimed his gun at his prey's face and fired one shot. Sieff was spared when the bullet ricocheted off his teeth. Later, Carlos would say his gun had jammed. "I usually fire three times around the nose. But only one bullet went off." He also botched his second mission, aiming poorly as he tossed hand grenades into an Israeli bank. "This is not a very efficient terrorist," says Vincent Cannistraro, former head of the CIA's counterterrorism...
...talk-show hostesses and prime-time starlets are hip -- Ricki Lake? Shannen Doherty? -- then what exactly can hip still mean? "I wish there was a department in the government that would tell people what is cool as far as culture and fashion goes," said one of the guests, Spencer Tunick, a photographer who came to publicize a nude photo shoot in front of the U.N. "It seems like we're all over the place...