Word: worded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...local jails in the first two years after the court order took shape. Over 400 were prosecuted. And, as Commissioner DiGrazia so unproudly points out, none received sentences from mostly neighborhood courts. This show of laxness and reactionary unity in the city's neighborhoods, along with the angry words and deeds that it compounded, turned Boston into an object of fascination and irony as media and communities, both North and South, watched Boston sacrifice its civic-minded, Yankee reputation to racial hatred, or so it seemed, and over the practical answer of a mild-mannered judge to a 14-word...
...Word of Helmholz's technique has reached other barbers as well. At least 40 have come to him to learn the torch trick and are now practicing on customers in scattered shops in California, Georgia, Texas and other states...
...expressionists. He was, Keating blithely admitted, "a terrible faker. Anyone who sees my work and thinks it genuine, must be around the bend." Moreover, Keating said, he did not mean his phonies to pass close tests: before setting to work he would scrawl "fake," "Keating" or a suitable rude word on the blank canvas, in lead-based paint, which would show up under X rays. Nevertheless, many of the works ended up in leading galleries and auction rooms, where, endowed with signatures and solid pedigrees, they were sold for even more solid prices...
...reason is that Denenberg and his unpaid staff (three student interns and his wife Naomi) check and recheck every word in his scripts. Moreover, his legal, academic and government experience puts him on equal footing with many company lawyers. Says he: "I know my neck is on the line...
When last glimpsed six years ago in A Man Called Horse, Sir John Morgan (Richard Harris) had become an honorary blood brother to a tribe of Sioux. The operative word here is blood. Morgan, an English lord on tour of the U.S. in the early 19th century, was captured by the Indians and treated as a slave. He proved his mettle and finally became one of the tribe by enduring all manner of tests and initiation rites, including a ceremony in which he was strung up by his pectorals. Manhood through pain and all that. The Sioux apparently set great...