Word: wheelings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...school. Basu told her supervisor she might be late to work that day, but not to fret: she would just need a little extra time to comfort her daughter and ease the separation. When the day arrived, Basu secured her daughter in the car seat, climbed behind the wheel of her pale gold BMW and drove off, edging to a halt at a nearby stop sign. At that moment, the peaceful town of Savage, Maryland, lost the irony of its name...
...daring escape from an fbi surveillance team one sticky New Mexico night in 1985 demonstrated Edward Lee Howard's mastery of the spy trade he learned at the Central Intelligence Agency. With his wife at the wheel, Howard propped up a dummy in the passenger seat and, on a tight turn, rolled out onto the roadway. Months later he surfaced in Moscow, the only full-fledged CIA operator to defect during the cold war. The fugitive double agent eventually showed up in Stockholm and last week was arrested by Swedish authorities...
...life fell apart. First, to his unassuageable grief, Krake died of cancer. Then he began to show the symptoms of tertiary syphilis. The last works that hold some spark of visual life are Johnson's religious subjects, such as the beautiful tempera drawing Ezekiel Saw the Wheel (circa 1942-43). After the war he began a series of paintings of Fighters for Freedom: political figures (Chiang Kai-shek, Churchill, Nehru and others) and icons of black history, such as Nat Turner hanged on a tree. They are mostly feeble, lacking the iconic power and brilliantly felt color of the earlier...
...society so numbed by statistics that we have begun to normalize something that should never be considered normal. It's the Vietnam body count all over. And gay white men are already better organized than other communities. I wanted to be sure others didn't have to reinvent the wheel on this epidemic...
...double jurisdiction grow up, and visitors to the spas were received with illegal (but openly practiced) gambling and prostitution. The local tales of Hope were traded for the legends of Al Capone carousing in the acrid steam of the bathhouses or at champagny circles around the roulette wheel...