Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...agents who burst into the Ravenite Social Club, a red brick Mob hangout in New York City's Little Italy, apparently surprised John Gotti. But true to his well-polished celebrity image, the alleged boss of the nation's largest and most vicious Mafia family quickly regained his composure. After he was pushed into a car in handcuffs, impeccably dressed as always (for this occasion, in a double-breasted pinstripe suit with a bright yellow scarf dangling rakishly from around his neck), the "Dapper Don" of tabloid fame grinned at reporters and dismissed his latest arrest with an airy...
...Michael Foreman (Arcade; $16.95). A Briton makes the '40s home front seem as recent as last week. No horrors here, just a collection of strangely compelling trivia. When bombs went off, for example, they scattered seeds out of gardens. "The following spring and summer, piles of rubble burst into bloom. Marigolds, irises and, best of all, potatoes sprouted everywhere...
This year, the holiday decorations at the Union consist of red bows, poinsettas of various colors and (a burst of creativity) colored bulbs to replace the traditional white ones in the Christmas candelabras...
...backwoods of West Virginia, the flag in front of my high school flew at half-mast. Martin Vineyard, Union High School Class of 1988, United States Marine Corps, was listed killed in action. When the mother of my high-school buddy Sonny told me the story, she suddenly burst into tears in front of me; her son was getting ready to ship out to Saudi Arabia...
Many talented rock musicians and funksters are at work in Minneapolis, but Prince dominates them all. He's had the hits, grabbed the attention and held the hot center since his 1984 album Purple Rain burst onto a complacent music scene. "There is no established music hierarchy here, no single right way to do things," says Chris Osgood, who once played guitar with a lively outfit called the Suicide Commandos and now heads the Minnesota Music Academy, which offers free business assistance to local musicians. "But the Minneapolis sound is really Prince -- some parts straight-ahead rock 'n' roll mixed...