Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quintet. Bending low over his sax, Rollins, 48, would pause for a fraction of a second and then come up swinging: weaving countermelodies inside and outside the harmonies, loosing flying clusters of arpeggios that left his sax all but smoking, ending with a comic bebop flourish, head thrown back and sax brandished triumphantly...
WITH ALL THIS ATTENTION being thrown at me, I now say to myself, 'Well, I must be attractive--I mean, after all, ten million girls isn't doing too badly,'" says that "quotable" disco star...
...remembers the day he "broke" as if it were yesterday. He had already watched his hands turn black "like German sausage" from tourniquet-tight binding; then ropes around his elbows were tightened until his shoulder blades slowly jammed into his spine. "At that moment," he remembers, "I would have thrown my kids into a fire to make it stop." Guttersen was on his knees and felt "psychically dirty, like I'd been swimming in a cesspool" and feared he might give up secrets about clandestine intelligence operations. He decided to try to kill himself by running headfirst...
...political scene for the fall promises to be every man for himself as each candidate scrambles to accommodate the changing moods back home. Normally, Republicans should make huge gains in such an environment. But as House Minority Leader John Rhodes ruefully noted last week, the Democrats have thrown away their old banners and quietly stolen Republican colors...
...Index kept the trash in the barrels and out of the bookstores. Breslin and Schaap offer little more than a Dragnet-style, names-have-been-changed-to-protect-the-innocent-and-save-us-from-a-lawsuit rundown of the murders, with a little sex and some ethnic name-calling thrown in, presumably to distinguish the book's heroic police inspector from the strait-laced Sgt. Friday Readers looking for a thoughtful analysis of the tortured reasoning--or lack thereof--that could lead to six random murders will be disappointed by the Exorcist-like ranting about demons and howling dogs; others...