Word: strandings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mother flew up from Los Angeles. A front-row seat was held for Catherine Hearst on Pacific Southwest Airlines' 4 p.m. commuter flight to San Francisco. She was a model of tightly controlled composure. Her black, high-necked cocktail dress was smooth and unwrinkled; the triple-strand choker of pearls was precisely in place; and her black alligator bag was set neatly...
...piece. Taylor uses his piano like an orchestra to simultaneously build different themes which appear and disappear only to reassert themselves at a later juncture. The music's complexity is stunning; like an intricate web seen from afar, his music seems initially amorphous, but upon closer examination each musical strand and the pattern into which it is woven appears. In many ways Taylor's style is the antithesis of Ayler's in that Taylor is using the new musical freedom to construct a more sophisticated form, rather than a simpler...
...mother of seven. And Arthur Penn, 33, father of three. And Elizabeth Carson, 64, whose husband Willy lost an arm. Pathetic lines of mourners wept after the requiem at the Catholic Church of St. Matthew, half a mile from where the attackers had tossed a bomb into the crowded Strand bar in East Belfast...
...Protestant extremist group, the Young Militants-an obscure offshoot of larger paramilitary groups-claimed responsibility for the Strand bar blast. The carnage took Ulster past another grisly milestone: 1,206 dead, including 866 civilians, since 1968, when Catholics began demonstrating for equal rights. This month alone there have been 119 shootings and bombings, with 21 killed and 170 injured...
...considers one of the odder aberrations of the 19th: Victorian morality. British Historian J.H. Plumb has aptly described "the Victorian's schizophrenic attitude-the conspiracy of silence, the excessive modesty that made the sight of a female ankle wildly erotic, contrasted with the baby prostitutes in the Strand." American Scholar Steven Marcus, in his study The Other Victorians, wrote of "a world part fantasy, part nightmare, part hallucination and part madhouse." Last week London was atwitter over not one but two sex scandals that came to light when some documents dating from the days when that curious world still...