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...cautiously pushed open the door of the walk-in closet of the bedroom and found a horrifying sight. Bunched on the floor were seven bodies-the two Parkins and the Earl couple, plus Debbie Earl, her boy friend and her brother. Their arms and legs were bound with nylon cord sometimes clinched with as many as six knots and they were gagged with knotted ties. Each had been shot in the neck or head with a small-caliber pistol. Some had taken longer to die than others. Debbie had been hit by four slugs, her father by five...
...meanings that never quite come out from behind the prose screens). More than any of his 17 previous novels, the story takes off from the workaday world in search of the ineffable. The familiar trappings of Wright's baroque realism turn up: the taste of switch grass and cord grass, the loom of grain elevators, the feel of a kitten dropped by wanton boys into a country-school privy. But the subject is myth. Old, unbelieving, literal-minded Floyd Warner takes on immortal longings. Having defied common sense by taking a herd of sheep and a wife...
Super-powerful laser beams have been used for more than a decade by eye surgeons to repair detached retinas. More recently, lasers have also been used to destroy certain skin cancers. But the Boston group is the first to use a laser for vocal-cord surgery. Dr. Geza J. Jako of B.U.'s otolaryngology department began using the device-developed in cooperation with American Optical Co. Research Laboratories-on dogs in 1967; Dr. M. Stuart Strong, head of the department, pioneered its use on humans two years...
...silky bluebonnets and flaming Indian paintbrush massed on the banks of the Pedernales River, she tightened her grip on the wheel and forded the rushing stream. As she turned into the road that leads to the L.B.J. Ranch, the intercom attached to the dashboard dangled idly on its cord. Once it was the link between her car and Lyndon's as they roamed their vast Texas acres. Now he is no longer there to call or answer her, and she is trying still to come to terms with his absence...
Faith. The talent was virtually parthenogenetic, since there was no theatrical tradition on either side of his family. His father was a piano salesman who eked out a precarious living. His mother played the piano passably, and Coward acknowledged that he was linked to her with "an umbilical cord of piano wire." By the time Noël donned his first childish sailor suit, Mrs. Coward had discovered her vocation: stage mother. The average mother is content to believe that her son is bright; the stage mother has a fanatical conviction that her son is a genius. With no discernible...