Word: standing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They obviously overlooked something. Outside St. Patrick's last Wednesday night, the 6-ft. 5-in. Delgado stripped off his clothes, entered the soaring Manhattan landmark and began to strike worshipers. Police officer James McMann, 50, radioed for help before Delgado knocked him out with a wrought- iron prayer stand and then struck and killed usher John Winters, 77. Lunging at one of three newly arrived policemen, he was shot dead. Afterward, John Cardinal O'Connor recalled that he had touched and blessed Delgado when he noticed the man looked disturbed at Mass that morning. In a city where tens...
...annotated by her friend Sally Fitzgerald, includes the two novels, all 28 short stories, essays and more than 250 indiscreet and entertaining letters. In them a previously hidden critic emerges: "Mr. Truman Capote makes me plumb sick, as does Mr. Tenn. Williams . . . if ((James)) Baldwin were white nobody would stand him a minute." She has nothing but awe for William Faulkner, the only other Southern novelist to be published in the magisterial Library of America series. She belongs in his company...
...relative newcomer to the fly, tried to glide to the wall. "I was afraid if I took another stroke, what would touch first would be my nose," he explained gloomily. But Nesty, who won the same race in the Pan American Games last year, belonged on the Olympic victory stand, and so did a surprising number of athletes from countries whose representatives used to disappear in the prelims. What happened long ago in track was now evident in swimming: world beaters were bobbing up from all over the world...
...entertainment," says psychologist Jerald Jellison of the University of Southern California. Experts believe the anonymity of the telephone offers a psychological safety valve to the secret keeper, who feels compelled to unburden himself but fears vilification. Says UCLA's Goodman: "It's the interpersonal parallel of a one-night stand...
...Stands savors the long blue benches of Changch'ung gymnasium, where the scoreboard announces that D. Hee is the winner of what it calls the "Light Women" taekwondo division. And he is among the earliest to know that the first American winner in the 1988 Games was a personable young taekwondoist from Chicago called Arlene Limas. When Arlene mounted the stand and waited for the first playing of The Star-Spangled Banner, however, there was only silence. Then more silence. At last, as the uneasy quiet dragged on, a few of the friends who had come all the way from...