Word: watchfulnesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...again. Down here on the ground I break all to pieces." Some of his partners were less determined. "I'm scared silly every time I go on," said Gunther Wallenda, a nephew. Karl's second wife Helen, who once performed in the act, refused even to watch it any longer. "I always sit in a back room and pray," she said. Wallenda was adamant. "The rest of life," he said, "is just time to fill in between doing...
Shortly after Sabo won renomination in the May 1976 primary, he discovered a black box under the fender of his patrol car. It turned out to be a sophisticated $2,800 radio transmitter, a tracking device. That night, as Sabo kept watch, a shadowy figure crept up to the patrol car. When the interloper reached under the fender. Sabo jumped out and arrested one Gary Morgan, an OCI investigator and the man Cooksey had utilized for pre-election snooping into Sabo's background...
...reportage and fiction, Ward Just has kept keen watch on the combat of war and politics. Here he extends his reach, trying for a Great American Novel of the heartland. The ingredients of A Family Trust are the stuff of saga. Amos, patriarch of the Rising clan, ascends with his newspaper, the Intelligencer, to the position of flame keeper for his insular Midwest town. His son tries to hold a fort that expands into shopping centers and tract houses. The grandchildren mislay the faith while inheriting the wealth that comes as an ironic dividend of cheapening values...
...Take the second train four stops, and then switch to the line that is the color of grass, heading in the direction of the Club's place of origin. Get off when you hear French-Canadian accents, and enter the building next to the subway entrance (Boston Garden). Then watch what should be a helluva hockey game between the big bad Bruins and the peerless Montreal Canadians. It you can't get tickets for this clash you can see the Bs take on the Pittsburgh Penguins on March 30 or you can switch sports and cheer on the Green...
There was something stirring about watching the choreographers watch Mallardi. All of them hoped to become dancers, or at least to make dance an important part of their lives. They were a small group devoting a huge amount of time and energy to dance and living an aesthetic experience at Harvard, not studying...