Word: stuns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...accused of masterminding the dragging. Across from them sat King's wheelchair-bound father Ronald, who took oxygen through tubes and moaned and cried softly through the opening arguments. A few feet in front of him was his son. Visible around the defendant's waist was an electric stun belt, to be used if he grew disruptive...
...CROWLEY'S SET DESIGNS Paul Simon's Broadway effort, The Capeman, may have been a turkey, but it was dressed like a peacock. Even bad plays look good when designed by Crowley. Good plays, like The Judas Kiss and Twelfth Night, positively shimmer. Crowley knows how to stun and to enchant. He understands that showmanship need not be showy and that one of the things that draws us to the stage is the way a good set mirrors and enhances a play, yet never overpowers...
...guitars and singing random songs to no one in particular; for crying out loud, show off. your talent to some real people. Tonight is open mic night at the posh "Back Room" at Cafe Soho's. You can sign up on the way in for an opportunity to stun the world with your musical talent. Or, if you're too damn shy, skip the sign-up sheet and recede into the dark cozy booths to eat some French fries and listen to braver souls share their tunes. 8 p.m., 11 Springfield St in Cambridge. 354-1040. Cover charge...
...place and acquiring knowledge that leads them to the end, to closure that is as satisfying and complete as the epilogue to a 500-page thriller. Why watch The Terminator when you can be the Terminator, tapping into your own fight-or-flight feedback loop and blasting and stun-gunning your way to the happily ever after? Imagine when more cerebral entertainments such as Riven (the sequel to the best-selling CD-ROM game Myst) are the program equals of TV. Instead of sitting back and watching the Seinfeld characters interact with one another, you could hang out with them...
...surprised and shocked to read "Weapons of Torture" [WORLD, April 6], which described the international sale of electric-shock devices that can be used to abuse prisoners. Your writer Douglas Waller complains about the availability of stun weapons to the ordinary public but then gives names, manufacturers, locations and descriptions of the weapons! Maybe you didn't intend this to be a torture-weapons catalog, but it can serve as one. Waller made life easy for crooks and regimes that are looking for places to obtain these weapons! JACQUELINE CANTILLO Bogota...