Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first step is to transform the impious into raving maniacs. The Theban women have already become blood-thirsty maenads at the start of the play; Pentheus (John Claflin), the proud young king of Thebes, is gradually given a taste for women's clothing as well as for self-destruction...
...heroes was David Hall, an agent who went undercover for nearly ten years in the swamps and bayous of the South. Hall would get to know the locals and start buying alligator hides from traders; at one point, he operated a tanning factory for more than a year. "The big traders would bring their skins to me in 18-wheel trucks," says Hall, "and we'd bust them on the spot. I know the real Crocodile Dundees, and I've arrested about half of them...
...Legal Assistance Fund in Washington picked up considerably; it is expected to go well above the nearly $100,000 already collected. In Jacksonville, N.C., home of Marine Camp Lejeune, where North once trained, retired Army Colonel E.M. Edens, 72, called the local paper with an offer of $100 to start a fund to pay for North's security system. In Washington, the epicenter of the Ollie phenomenon, the offices of Congressmen on the committee were besieged with letters and telegrams running 20 to 1 in favor of North. "Keep your chin up," said one; "Good luck against those ill-bred...
...From the start, Reagan has insisted he did not know of any diversion plans, making it the litmus test of his credibility in separating himself from the scandal. The White House was unmoved by North's claim that he wrote five diversion memos; only the one found on Nov. 22 has turned up among the 250,000 documents the White House released to the congressional committees. Even if other versions exist, says one aide, so what? "There's nothing that says the President saw them...
...company has product to sell and an estate has merchandise to move, the date suddenly gets writ large. RCA has just released four compilations of Presley material with scrupulous "audio restoration": The Top Ten Hits, The Number One Hits and, most crucially, The Complete Sun Sessions, recorded at the start of his career, and The Memphis Record, recorded in 1969, when all the anger and antic experimentation of rock seemed to have left Elvis in the lurch. The 23 songs on The Memphis Record (never released all together until now) were originally conceived as a reassertion of Presley's primacy...