Word: womanizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...City's voluble mayor, recently recounted how he had toured Manhattan in the company of some mental health experts. Concerned about the mentally ill who live on the streets, Hizzoner had decided to do some sidewalk research. On the tony Upper East Side, the group encountered a bedraggled, incoherent woman lying in the street, having thoroughly soiled herself. The woman could not be forcibly committed to a mental health institution, said the experts, because she did not present an "imminent danger." Koch was stunned, and recalled thinking, "You're loony yourself...
After graduating, Costner married his college sweetheart, Cindy Silva, a former Snow White at Disneyland and the only woman he had ever really dated. He also took a marketing job in Orange County. "It was a disgusting thing," he says. "I quit after 30 days. Cindy said to me, 'What are you going to do now?' 'Act!' I said. 'What else?' she asked. 'I'm working on a screenplay. I'm a writer,' I said. 'A writer!' she screamed. 'You can't even spell!' She cleared the table, and papers flew up in the air like in a cartoon...
...died at 83 as the world's oldest reigning monarch (Emperor Hirohito of Japan, at 86, is now the oldest). At last year's coronation, the chiefs of Swaziland paid a total of 105 cattle to the family of Mswati's mother Ntombi as a dowry for the woman who was to become the mother of the nation. Before the public ceremony, Mswati underwent secret initiation rites and took part in a series of exhausting ritual dances in full feathered regalia. At the coronation, tribal praise singers endlessly repeated his imposing chain of official titles, which include the Bull, Guardian...
Shortly after 1 a.m., a woman sitting in a snack bar near the palace saw about 50 soldiers wearing black ski masks run past. Moments later the night was shattered by automatic-weapons fire and the blast of mortars and grenades. Those unexpected sounds of combat signaled the beginning last Thursday night of the bloodiest, most dangerous coup attempt yet mounted against Aquino's 18- month-old government...
...police had more than a few questions for Park Soon Ja, but the 48-year-old woman was nowhere to be found. The entrepreneur from Taejon, 100 miles south of Seoul, owed 220 people more than $10 million. She was last seen in mid- August, when 13 of her employees severely beat two creditors who had tried to collect money owed them. Even Park's husband Lee Kee Chung did not seem to know where...