Word: terrorizer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nicknamed "Highpockets" or "Stork"...keyed 5-4 upset over Princeton freshman year with a straight-set victory at number four over current Tiger co-captain Jon Gross; Harvard tied for the league title with that win...smart doubles player, good volleyer, better in singles with improved groundstrokes this year...terror in Palmer-Dixon...key to game is return of serve, since he holds serve well...won Ohio state doubles championship as schoolboy...
North By Northwest. Clever. One could say as much for any Hitchcock film. But this one has to be his most ingenious, the plot is devilish--and, although Hitchcock never really wrings the full terror out of it, terrifying. Cary Grant plays a Madison Avenue smoothie with a doting mother and a life of business luncheons who gets taken (figuratively, and literally) for a spy. "Nice play-acting, but it won't wash,' his abductor, a chillingly villainous James Mason tells Grant when he tries to clear up this misunderstanding. Grant breaks free, then does some romantic interluding with...
...talks on conventional arms transfers. "Aywax," meanwhile, is not used for polishing floors, but is the way AWACS is pronounced, signifying airborne warning and control system, a flying command post loaded with computers. Most descriptive of the terms in this arcane tongue is the acronym for the balance of terror concept known as "mutual assured destruction"; it, of course, is called...
...spirit of things, Dotson and a friend sang hymns between disco numbers. "Why not? After all, television mixes apples with astronauts," opined Mailer, 55, who is writing a book about Gary Gilmore, the executed murderer. "It's a new angle," agreed Capote, 53, who is called the "Tiny Terror" for rattling the skeletons of his celebrity friends in his novel-in-progress Answered Prayers. Capote's next book, he says, will be about "a disastrous love affair I had." The T.T.'s proposed literary style: high comedy...
Nothing demonstrates the Red Brigades' methods more chillingly than the campaign of terror that members have conducted since the Turin trial began in May 1976. That first trial was postponed when a defendant announced that brigatisti were responsible for the assassination of Genoa's chief public prosecutor and two assistants just the day before. Last April, as the trial was to resume, brigatisti fatally shot Fulvio Croce, 76, president of the Turin Bar Association, whose appointment as Curcio's defense counsel made him a "collaborationist of the regime." Jurors suddenly found excuses not to serve, and dozens...