Word: sudden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...With the sudden assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy '48 and Martin Luther King Jr., that tone grew more frustrated and more insistent, erupting at Columbia and later at the 1968 Democratic National Convention...
...spite of his previous record in jail and his history of sudden, violent behavior, prison officials assigned Bobby Shaw to the vegetable-cutting room, where inmates work with knives every day. He was neither examined nor treated for psychiatric illness. There Shaw was put under the direction of guard Walter Farrow, 61, who seemed to get along well with his prisoner. Bobby Shaw remembers his assignment with some excitement. "I was peelin' potatoes. I was runnin' the machine, makin' French fries, scalloped potatoes. Corn had to be snatched off the cob. Lettuce and cabbage had to be cut." He remembers...
...have the deal done before the CBS affiliates' meeting this week, and he was apparently in a fret about the competition. He may be worried that Andrew Lack, the smart new NBC News president who came from CBS (where he was Chung's executive producer), will work some sudden magic at NBC. Then there's the chance CBS may lose Ed Bradley, who is being offered millions to defect...
However, DeLong says her life took a sudden turn in 1986 when she was diagnosed as manic depressive and began to suffer cycles of hypo mania and severe depression...
...fate (giddily yet scarily represented as a warrior figure out of China's ancient past) and proposes that Lee ran so hard, so fast in an attempt to outdistance this grim stalker. It's an incautious conceit, and some of its effectiveness may derive from the recent, equally sudden, equally premature death of Lee's son Brandon on a film set. One begins to think that perhaps the family actually is haunted. But even in happier circumstances, one could succumb to the charged-up romanticism of this dippy, entrancing movie...