Word: wingo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Holding together this overpowering imagery is the story of Tom Wingo, an unemployed coach and teacher, haunted by his childhood, frightened by his future, and struggling to understand the South...
...Henry Wingo, Tom's tight-lipped, hardworking father, made sure the offense would not be repeated. After forcing his son to roast and eat the bird's flesh, Henry continued the "expiation of sin," by having his son jailed and then making him wear a headdress of the eagle's feathers to school, "until it began to disintegrate feather by feather. Those feathers trailed me in the hallways of the school as though I were a molting, discredited angel." It is an image which remains with Tom--always threatening to define...
...Murdoch's hands, the paper has built a following for its daily "Wingo" game and earned welldeserved criticism for sensationalizing hard news while playing up smarmy fluff stories about kids and lost kittens. It has also at times covered the city with greater enthusiasm than the comfortable and establishedGlobe...
...later Alvin Moore Jr., 27, executed for a rape-robbery-murder, became the second. Three days after that, Jimmy Glass, 25, convicted of shooting a rural couple to death, took the chair with a quip: "I'd just as soon be fishing." Then last week Glass's accomplice Jimmy Wingo, 35, declared both innocence and forgiveness ("I do still love you all in Christ") as he became the fourth person to be executed in the state in ten days...
Landis, 36, one of Hollywood's most successful young directors (Animal House, Trading Places, Into the Night), faces up to four years in prison if convicted. He and two assistants, Special Effects Coordinator Paul Stewart and Stunt Pilot Dorcey Wingo, are accused of being criminally negligent during the filming of a Viet Nam War sequence in which a helicopter, disabled by a special-effects explosion, crashed onto Morrow, 53, and Vietnamese Actors Renee Chen, 6, and Myca Dinh Le, 7. The director and two other colleagues, Associate Producer George Folsey and Production Manager Dan Allingham, are charged with an additional...