Word: sentinels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hampshire last month, Superior Court Judge John W. King came up with a peculiar ruling: after initially closing off a pretrial hearing in a murder case, the judge relented and allowed David Lord, a reporter from the Keene Evening Sentinel, to sit in. King insisted, however, that the newspaper's lawyer, Ernest L. Bell III, sit next to the reporter, telling him what he could and could not write. If anything prejudicial to the defendant appeared in the newspaper, the judge warned, Bell would be subject to discipline. When the hearing resumed, Bell rose and told the judge...
This is Michael Winner's annual exercise in violence and stupidity. The brutality, by the standards of the director who brought us Death Wish and The Sentinel, is relatively mild. It lacks his usual slavering interest in gore, grotesquery and sadism-though there is one signature episode in which a man is tortured by being doused in blood and dunked in shark-infested waters. One must add, however, that Winner has perhaps exceeded him self in witlessness...
...January my baby girl sled into this far-fetched world. No doctors, nurses, hospitals, Representatives of Civilization to take her away and sanitize her, stop me from holding her all wet and hot and squiggly, washing her myself, nesting, bonding. I could look out my window and see the sentinel mahogany gums. They were blue-green, and their branches swam in the clean wind. I didn't want to be anywhere else...
...news, most of it bad or even worse, indifferent to his existence. Daily, however, his royal host, King Hassan II, drives over to Dar es Salaam Palace for a tete-a-tete, often chauffeuring himself in a sleek Mercedes 4505E with only a chihuahua lap dog as sentinel. There is an occasional family excursion into the Middle Atlas Mountains, but this involves screaming sirens and two limousine loads of jittery security guards scarcely a soothing outing. At home at the palace, 200 Moroccan troops are on guard duty...
...letter to the Central Maine Morning Sentinel, Yates wrote "It is my belief that every person should have the fundamental right to make decisions regarding his or her own fate and to be able to accept the consequences of those decisions. The government should not have to be responsible for protecting me from myself. As long as I am the only one affected by my actions, there should be no need for the government to interfere. I judged myself capable of completing the climb and willing to accept the risk of injury or failure. Who else is as familiar...