Word: viciousness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cloud of alleged corruption that is now hovering over Bellotti carries a tragic irony. Bellotti, in his 1964 narrow loss to former Governor John A. Volpe, was the victim of vicious and apparently false innuendos concerning his ties to the underworld. The defeat for governor, which came when Bellotti was only 41 years old, marked the turning point of a meteoric rise to power in Massachusetts politics...
Connors, Harvard's number three workhorse behind Polillio and fullback Matt Granger, sustained a neck injury in the first quarter at Princeton when he received a vicious pop to the head...
Nervousness about the weak dollar and inflation conspired to bring a startling break in stock prices. The Dow Jones industrial average last week tumbled more than 59 points, to 838, its worst one-week loss in history. Indeed, currency and stock markets seem to be getting locked into a vicious circle. When a plunge in the dollar causes stock prices to drop, foreign moneymen read the stock slide as an indication that Americans are losing faith in their own economy, and they unload still more dollars...
Keith Richards (since when is his name plural?) and Sid Vicious are two folks you'd be reading a lot about in The New York Times lately, if there were a New York Times. There isn't, but their names are still news. This has not been a good week for 21-year-old Sid of the Sex Pistols. His cat is dead, his girlfriend is dead, he tried to kill himself, and he is suspected of being guilty on all three counts. I have the feeling his name won't help his cause, either...
PUNK ROCKERS discovered long ago that the pose of violent self-loathing is a quick ticket to media coverage and record sales. Everyone loves to read about mutilation, self-inflicted or otherwise: and if sham turns to reality, so much the better--as in the case of Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols, now whiling away the hours at Bellevue. After all, if rocks stars can't enact the fantasies of a lobotomized generation, who can? The problem with punk rock--the genuine, mind-rotting type--is that when it's insincere, everyone can tell; but when it's honest...