Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Damn straight. Just as soon as he finds a decent room. He hates dirt, and went through four hotels before finding one with hot water. With his trademark cigarette holder in one hand, gin-and-tonic in the other, Thompson is covering the goings-on in Grenada for Rolling Stone. This time he has no "Great Red Shark," the rented Chevy convertible in his account of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, but a rented fire-red mini Moke, an open-sided vehicle that honeymooners use on Caribbean beach tours. He also has a press pass, plenty of Dunhills...
...studied art and art history at Syracuse University and thereafter embarked on a successful career as an abstract sculptor. In 1968, while casting bronze sculpture at a foundry in Long Island City, N.Y., he met Alison Sky, an experimental sculptor and poet. Two years later, with Photographer-Writer Michelle Stone, they launched a design firm called SITE, an acronym for "sculpture in the environment...
...caper seems to have been executed with simple cat-burglary techniques. Sometime after dark, the thieves climbed a repairmen's scaffold on the west side of the imposing, neoclassical building. After scaling a 20-ft. stone wall, they reached one of the windows to the old masters' gallery. It was not protected by bars, so the thieves merely cut a hole in the glass, opened the latch, and slipped inside. The burglar alarm, museum attendants later admitted, had been out of order for three weeks...
...Kennedy delighted in meeting Charles de Gaulle, whom he found pompous but awesome, and Khrushchev, who he concluded was a man of physical dexterity, bad tailoring and a stone heart. Twice Kennedy talked about Asia with General Douglas MacArthur, and each time he came away hushed and thoughtful from what he considered an audience with greatness. MacArthur told Kennedy both times to stay out of a land war on mainland Asia. That is one of the reasons I believe Kennedy would have done differently in Viet Nam and that our history would have been far happier if he had lived...
Turnbull stays at the stone table with an in-laid chess board from about 10 a.m. until...