Word: block
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Some time in October, Chapman's bad side took over completely. On Oct. 23 he quit his job, signing out in the logbook, John Lennon. Four days later he walked into J and S Sales, a gun shop just a block from the main Honolulu police station. Because he had no arrest record, a salesman sold him a Charter Arms .38-cal. revolver (price: $169). "It's the type used by detectives and plainclothes police because it is easy to conceal," explains Steve Grahovac, the store's owner...
...LEAVE THE HALLS of power, and follow through the streets, Join us in a Yuletide round and see the souls we meet. Down the block there's Daniel Steiner--Of prudent lawyers there could be no finer. Across the Yard, Our Dean, Hank Rosovsky, Stares at the emptying coffers of his Faculty While armies of administrators trudge from dorm to dorm Studying conservation--and "calendar reform." For Dean Epps, may the New Year finally end the pain Of late-delivered newspapers, and students who deal cocaine. The Yard is filled with our friends and their faces--But of Arnold...
...Hemphill finished her undergraduate program at the University of Connecticut, then returned to Harvard's Graduate School of Education, where she is a second-year student. Although she was permitted to reenter the University system, there remains a visible reminder of her transgression--in large block letters taking up a good third of the transcript sheet are stamped the words, "Required to withdraw...
...have parole tune restored that was lost during the dirty protest. The government appeared to give a bit on the clothing issue, saying that prisoners would be allowed to wear "civilian-type" clothes. But they were to be issued by the prison, which was unacceptable to the H-block protesters...
...first view, Lonnie Wayne Burke (Griffin Dunne) is a criminal street urchin who almost seems afraid of his $2 handgun. A scruffy pressagent, Manny Alter, played with drooling opportunism by Larry Block, sees the chance to turn Lonnie into a lethal hot property. Decking the punk in a skeleton suit and dubbing him "the Halloween Killer," Manny starts Lonnie on the garish glory road to 27 murders. The tabloids swiftly pick up the scent (THE HALLOWEEN KILLER STALKS JACKIE O.). Smarmy talk-show hosts fawn on him, paperback offers and film rights proliferate, and Lonnie makes big bad bawdy whoopee...