Word: stephen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...August 1971 Stephen Bingham, a Yale-educated attorney with left-wing sympathies, paid a visit to San Quentin Prison Inmate George Jackson, a Black Panther leader and author. After the meeting, Jackson pulled out a 9-mm pistol, sparking a melee that left six dead, himself included. Police postulated that Bingham had smuggled the gun and two ammo clips to his client. Bingham, who was then 29, went into hiding; after 13 years, he returned to California in 1984 to face conspiracy and murder charges...
Last week, as the jury delivered three not-guilty verdicts, Stephen Bingham smiled, and then broke into tears. Putting a new twist on an outdated cliche, he announced, "This is the first day of the rest of my life...
...dinosaur walked by. Then, too, some other material may have sifted into the toe marks long after the prints hardened. Or perhaps, for some reason, erosion distorted the prints. Even before Kuban's findings, mainstream scientists did not lose much sleep over the Paluxy footprints. Says Harvard Paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, who has visited the site: "Everyone knows that they are dinosaur tracks. It's been a non-issue in the field for a long time." The question of whether some dinosaurs stepped heel first, however, remains. Kuban's contention that they came down on their metatarsals "fundamentally reorganizes what...
...hope to establish more surely the location of some of the first structures [of Harvard College]," says Peabody Professor of American Archaeology and Ethnology Stephen Williams, who will be teaching the course along with John Stubbs, a teaching fellow in anthropology. Since there are no maps remaining from the time, artifacts can provide provides the only cartographical information...
That kind of tutti-frutti exchange is invigorating. Now, however, pop has started feeding off itself in remarkable new ways. Sometimes the self- references are just lazy or parochial. On situation comedies, characters make jokes about other situation comedies. In Stephen King's fiction, a character in a quandary "thought of a cartoon character with an anvil suspended over its head," and a forest "seemed alive with hokey B-movie jungle drums." Then there are the stranger entertainments about entertainment, from the small army of Elvis impersonators to the TV game show Puttin' On the Hits, on which ordinary folks...