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...neighbors, Heidnik was known as an affable, offbeat sort who held "services" in his house for retarded women. He had a history of violence, however, and was convicted in 1978 of kidnaping a mentally handicapped woman. In 1985 he married a mail-order bride from the Philippines, but she left him after only three months, accusing him of spousal rape. He also had a knack for making good investments: police found documents in his house showing that he owned $500,000 worth of stock. Heidnik and a friend who occasionally in the house, Cyril ("Tony") Brown, 31, were charged with...
...Rockin', Edmunds does occasionally rev up his normally idling throttle with ferocious treatments of Parker's "Crawling From the Wreckage," Lowe's "I Knew the Bride (When She Used to Rock and Roll)," and his own chestnut, "Ju Ju Man," all of which outstrip the originals. And even those fans accustomed to Edmunds' proclivity for non-originals will be pleasantly surprised by the inclusion of Juice Newton's "Queen of Hearts" and Dion and the Belmonts' "The Wanderer." With these songs and others, I Hear You Rockin' shows that you can judge a rocker by his covers...
...Yeah," Evaline said. "Which side are you on? The bride's or the groom...
...bride's sister, aren't you? Aren't you Evaline...
...like seeing life studies done by an artist famous for large, symbolic canvases. Absent are the extended metaphors that gave form to her earlier novels. The protagonist of An Edible Woman, for example, feels so cannibalized by the people in her life that she serves her fiance a bride made of sponge cake and icing, then flees from the altar. Gone too is Atwood's allegorizing. In last year's The Handmaid's Tale she offered a vision of America transformed into a Fundamentalist Christian theocracy...