Word: walking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the timing was right. Even such a chance event as the appearance of a convenient parking space was such a sign to Berkowitz. He did choose victims whom he considered "pretty," claiming he favored the Queens borough for a time because "Queens girls are prettier." He did not walk casually away from the murder sites and slip into the dark. "I ran like hell." He revisited at least two of the scenes of his crimes and tried to find the grave of his first victim, Donna Lauria, 18, whom he had not known but for whom he seemed...
...family custom that survives. Punch last year marked a grandnephew's birth with this ditty: O Nicholas Ochs put on his socks to cover his chubby feet. He dropped in the hamper a slightly used Pamper and went out for a walk in the street. O Nicholas Ochs walked blocks and blocks till his socks grew dark and dank. When he came to a stop and sat with a plop at the keys of the Times Data Bank...
...Maharishi invited several thousand of his teachers to TM headquarters in Switzerland to acquaint them with the organization's new wares. The teachers have now brought those wares to the American market: lessons that will lead trainees to the Siddhis, or supernatural powers. These include the ability to walk through walls, feel infinite compassion, become invisible. But the most controversial of the Siddhis is levitation-the ability to hover in midair and fly around the room, as one TM teacher puts it, "like Peter...
...actual mastery of the sky, flying at will." Adds Rashi Glazer, 27, a New Yorker who has started the new course but is not yet airborne: "Once you have experienced the absolute-even for a few minutes-flying is not a very big deal. I guess I will eventually walk through a wall, but the technique I want most is omniscience and knowledge of other planets...
...textbooks in the summertime. Only the aberrant lounger among them would admit to not being a moviegoer. The students' age and educational bracket put them squarely in one of Hollywood's most devoted and tuned-in markets. Robert Redford or Jack Nicholson or Al Pacino could not walk through this crowd unrecognized; Brando might provoke understated pandemonium. Suddenly, the hottest actor now at work in films appears in the lobby and passes through. No one notices. Robert De Niro, the phantom of the cinema, strikes again...