Word: bed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Philippe. Once he stole a truck, and it was Philippe who found himself answering police questions. Just two weeks ago, Philippe encountered some sailors who told him he had made a fool of himself in a barroom brawl the night before (when, of course, he had been home in bed...
...there is a cry from their daughter's room. Elizabeth (Genevieve Bujold) goes to investigate and is absent too long. Michael (Cliff Robertson) follows to find his life suddenly shattered-wife and child kidnaped and a note demanding a huge ransom pinned to the bed. At times he is desperate, then hopeful. The police enlist his aid in a plot to outwit the kidnapers, assuring him that official expertise is a better guarantee of his family's safety than his fortune...
...restoration of a sacred painting, is her double (also played by Genevieve Bujold). He pursues her, brings her home to marry-and then she too is kidnaped in circumstances that precisely duplicate those of the first crime. There is even a message clipped to the post of the same bed, a photo of the original ransom note torn from an old newspaper...
Hoak went to bed that Sunday night without reaching state health authorities. On Monday morning, they called him. Having heard that several Legionnaires had entered a Williamsport hospital with symptoms of something that soon came to be known as "Legion Disease," an official in the state's division of communicable diseases asked Hoak if he was aware of an unusual number of illnesses among his colleagues. Hoak's reply confirmed the worst: there was an invisible, impersonal mass killer on the loose. The knowledge rekindled, despite all the advances of modern medicine, humanity's ancient memories...
...Hello, I'm part of the medical team investigating this weird disease," said Dr. Stephen Thacker, 28, as he sat down beside Thomas Payne's bed in Chambersburg Hospital. "How do you feel? When did you first feel sick? Where did you eat and stay in Philadelphia? When did you arrive there? When did you leave? Did you go to the testimonial dinner? Or the go-getter's breakfast? Did you go to the hospitality rooms for the state commander or other officials? Did you have any contact with pigs...