Word: thrall
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...without resorting to trivial games. The transition to reality and perhaps maturity is completed by the unexpected news of the Princess' father's death, and all eight principals soberly vow faith and various types of atonement, as if ceremoniously renouncing the comic-traditional world that has held them in thrall...
Herself, that's who. Herself and a whole generation or two of leftists, mostly intellectuals and mostly New Yorkers, who actually spent some or all of their lives in the thrall of sectarian myth. And maybe, more to the point, a somewhat larger number of"60s types who glorified a bit too strenuously the virtues of Fidel and Ho and Mao Sontag belongs, more or less, in both categories; she was born into the Manhattan neo-Stalinist school of the '30s and '40s (though she was never a supporter) and in the '60s revived her interest in Matters political...
...which his lawyers will plead insanity, Hinckley, alone in a Maryland stockade cell, now has only himself to hurt; twice he has attempted suicide. Agca, after a boyhood of rural Turkish poverty, attended two universities and eventually joined a gang of young fascist thugs in Istanbul. In their thrall he became a practiced assassin two years before his descent on Rome. Agca's motive was nominally political ("A protest against imperialism," he claimed) but had only the hermetic coherence of the demented. Said the Italian prosecutor of Agca, who is now serving a life sentence in a provincial prison...
...quite different men are in thrall to it in this tragicomic drama and bonded to each other in something resembling a love-hate relationship. Sir (Paul Rogers), who is called only that, is the last of a dying breed of British actor-managers who tour the provinces paying flawed but fervent fealty to Shakespeare. The time is 1942 in bomb-blasted England, and the war has depleted Sir's resources to an extremely tatty troupe: "I'm reduced to old men, cripples and Nancy-boys. Herr Hitler has made it very difficult for Shakespearean companies...
...rattling of Yale's skull and bone does not settle such lingering questions a what killed off the dinosaurs 65 million years ago and whether they were warm blooded or cold. Yet even the most trivia news from the dinosaur world seems to hold everybody in thrall. Adds Yale Pale ontologist John Ostrom: ''It's good busines for the museum and for Yale...