Word: vans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there in the dog pound." But he does not claim innocence. No: he did kill a man two days before Christmas 1980. Rutledge was doped up and drunk with two friends. One pal brought along a gun, and with it they took off on a joyride in the van of a driver they had robbed of $20 and stashed in the back. It was decided that the victim, Gable Holloway, 28, should die. He begged for his life. But Rutledge, like a zombie, took the pistol and fired. He fired again and again, five shots...
...arguments for capital punishment are usually visceral or anecdotal. Ernest van den Haag, professor of jurisprudence and public policy at Fordham University, says flatly, "Nobody fears prison as much as death." Florida's Governor Graham, who has signed 45 death warrants, cites the case of a restaurant robbery seen by a customer. "Afterward," recounts Graham, "he was the only witness. So the two guys took him out to the Everglades and shot him in the back of the head. If they had felt that being convicted for robbery and first-degree murder was sufficiently different, they might have...
PROBABLY KATE BUSH has never run over a kangaroo with a van, or blown up a bank, or killed a G.I. in Vietnam. But she can sing about doing these things without sounding ridiculous. Her forte has always been the creation of a separate world with her music, a world in which she determines her own reality. The scenes she creates in songs such as "The Dreaming," the title track of her new album, don't necessarily sound true. Rather, they achieve a fantastic state more chilling than the actual scene could ever...
...Dreaming" presents one of Kate Bush's most disturbing worlds. Singing in the harsh Aussie accent of an outback miner, she expresses the victorious hubris of a developer crushing a primitive society like a kangaroo under the wheels of his van...
MARRIED. Steve Van Zandt, 32, rock guitarist for the E Street Band, and Dancer Maureen Santoro, 32; both for the first time; in New York City. The minister was rock-'n'-roll legend Little Richard (Evangelist Richard Penniman), the best man Van Zandt's sometime boss Bruce Springsteen...