Word: towns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...after gallbladder surgery, the extent of his hoard had largely been a secret. As compulsive consumers go, he was inconspicuous. An old pal, Collector Suzie Frankfurt, once noticed a slight bulge under his shirt at a Studio 54 bash: it was a dazzling emerald necklace. Yet Warhol's opulent town house on Manhattan's Upper East Side was so cluttered with the fruits of his shopping binges that only two or three rooms were habitable. Picassos were stuffed in closets. Jewels were squirreled away in the canopy of his antique four-poster bed. "He was chronically, almost neurotically, acquisitive," writes...
...this," says Bill Ivey, 32, who runs the store. Ivey grew up behind the trading post, where his father was the storekeeper. At the time, he recalls, Lajitas had an official population of just seven, four of whom were Iveys. Now a Houston company has developed a clapboard tourist town around an old cavalry post nearby, and the population of Lajitas is about 100. "Back then, all my friends lived across the river," says Ivey, a bachelor, who lives behind the shop. "Now I've got ^ a few over here as well." He has turned his kitchen into an office...
...short, Garner is perfectly cast as a gracefully aging Wyatt Earp in Writer-Director Blake Edwards' curiously graceless evocation of a bygone Hollywood age. The frontier marshal comes to town, at the end of the silent era, to act as technical adviser on a western in which Cowboy Star Tom Mix (Bruce Willis) is supposed to play him in his younger days...
McNamara's brush with horror began Dec. 4, when four policemen stopped her as she strolled through the southern Peruvian town of Ayacucho. At first they claimed they were conducting a passport check. Then, according to McNamara, the police searched her hotel room and confiscated "suspicious" articles -- medicine, vitamins, a ball of string and tourist maps. In the local jail, McNamara got a hint of the problems to come. "No one told me what was going on," she said. "But the word terrorismo drifted down the staircase...
Within two days the Peruvian authorities charged McNamara with the murder of two government officials who were killed in a 1987 Sendero Luminoso attack near the Andean town of Vilcashuaman. The evidence against her was flimsy: the two survivors of the assault said it was led by a tall gringa, local slang for any non-Indian woman from the Peruvian coast. Both victims met McNamara and said she was not the killer, but to no avail. Though McNamara claimed she was in Puquio, a town more than 200 miles away, when the murders occurred, records from the hotel where...