Word: witnessers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The adenoids are missing, but the tone is unmistakable ("Those halcyon days of yore are gone for good"). Through the booming names and assertions comes the clarion bleat of Howard Cosell blowing his own horn. In this $ autobiographical screed, the Mouth That Roared shows that in a 32-year career...
In a gritty, wind-torn burg near Palm Springs, Calif., a college student is found in a canyon, burned and shot to death. Los Angeles Police Department Detective Sidney Blackpool bridles at taking a case far from his own turf, but he cannot resist the six-figure job promised by...
Among the defendants, the big cheese for prosecutors is Gaetano Badalamenti, 50, a Mafia capo who fled Sicily after a bloody gang war erupted in the late 1970s over control of the heroin trade. Badalamenti and his son Vito were ^ arrested in Spain and extradited to the U.S. for trial...
In his questioning, the judge was skeptical that Antonov could have functioned effectively in his job as deputy chief of Bulgaria's Balkan Airlines' Rome office without a working knowledge of English. In fact, one important prosecution witness, former Balkan Airlines Hostess Magdalena Traynova, who now lives in Chicago, said...
Townshend, an editor for London publisher Faber & Faber, can be lyric and affecting, but too often he is portentous: "Almost as soon as the window had misted up, a great blast of steam wafted into the street. Pete felt like the witness to some awesome nuclear test of devastating power...