Word: blind
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...slaughtered in her run- down apartment on March 1. Her apartment had been ransacked; she had been suffocated with a pillow and raped. Then, on March 6, Aretha Clements, 60, was discovered by her son: she had been strangled, raped and robbed. On March 11, Dena Mae Mike, 62, blind and living only a mile away from the others, became the third victim. By the time the body of Grace Hill, 68, was discovered on April 9, the police had already formed a task force to investigate the similarities in the murders. "We have to be sensitive after what...
...name dropping. Her heroine, Maxi Amberville ("her surpassingly green eyes, the precise color of Imperial Jade"), is the customary flaring, rich, tousled, naughty, gorgeous protean number. This time she is a publishing vicereine with a field of ex-husbands, a bewitching mother, a homosexual brother, a heterosexual near-blind brother, and an eleven-year-old daughter by magnificent, "fascinatingly brooding, darkly luminous" Renaissance Rocco. From Maxi's view at the top, Krantz scatters a lot of glitz: hot seawater bubble baths, iced buffalo-grass vodka, tarte Tatin, Pratesi sheets, Don Johnson, Le Cirque and the Bohemian Grove. But she never...
...four years out of M.I.T., he borrowed $150,000, set up his own company and developed the Kurzweil Reading Machine. Able to scan words on a printed page and then read them aloud in an artificial voice, the device has been hailed as the most significant aid for the blind since the invention of Braille. In 1983 he introduced the Kurzweil 250, a computer-driven musical synthesizer that can mimic the sounds of instruments and voices. Even more sophisticated than Robert Moog's famous synthesizer, which was developed in the 1960s, the 250 can sound like a symphony orchestra...
...fooling him. "They want the old man to practice," he says. Corporate setbacks have recently conspired with creaking muscles to limit his time on the courses he builds. It would be an exaggeration to say Jackie had to lead the old man around the National like a blind ward, but just a slight one. Color-blind to begin with (Hart Schaffner and Barbara have dressed him for years), Nicklaus has lost the horizon. He mourns, "I'm missing the pleasure of watching my golf ball finish--I can't see that far anymore." Throughout the tournament, he was forever asking...
...number and move to the end of the line. Since only one member of each rooming group need file the rooming choice, and since the process itself would be quick, the whole affair could be finished in a few days. No fuss, no mess, no worry--and no more blind choices, frantic freshmen, or 2 a.m. calls from the Statistics Department...