Word: commits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...star witness: movie actor George Hamilton. Imelda's dancing partner at countless parties, he testified in a voice choked with emotion, "When my brother died, my mother wanted to commit suicide." Imelda Marcos' kindness, he said, is "the only reason my mother is alive today...
Ruth Rendell has enough talent for two people, so she also writes mysteries under the name of Barbara Vine. They usually concern a crime committed long ago; this time, Gallowglass (Harmony; 272 pages; $19.95) shifts from past to present, from first person to third, like sand in an hourglass. The kidnaping of an heiress was foiled years ago; now the same man tries to commit the same crime, this time with the aid of the naive narrator. An attempt is made to bribe the woman's bodyguard; when he refuses, the malefactors kidnap his young daughter with catastrophic results...
...civil rights bill has Bush playing for time. Business lobbyists and activists on Bush's right flank widely oppose the measure. Pressure from the right is so intense that White House officials have been careful not to commit bargaining positions to paper, lest their boss be accused of backing down in the end. After counseling Bush to cut what deals he can, Lee Atwater, the convalescent Republican National Committee chairman who masterminded the 20% solution, advised him to "sign this bill...
Henry doesn't sell drugs or commit robberies. "I just like gang banging," he says, meaning hanging out with his friends. He witnessed the mortal consequences of gang banging when he was eleven: a 16-year-old homeboy was shot twice in the head by some guys from "Colonia Watts." Henry was hanging out on the next street, heard the shots and ran over to find the boy sprawled on the street, his blood seeping onto the concrete. "I was mad, everybody was." Henry didn't get a chance to vent his anger until much later, for a different shooting...
Lowering his voice, he admits he wants to join the I.R.A. Would he be willing to commit murder? "Kill Orangemen and Brits, aye," he says with relish. He pauses, then once again lowers his voice. "But I wouldn't kill one of my own." One of his I.R.A. uncles was killed by one of his own, shot through the head for acting as an informant. Chuckie is always mindful of that...