Word: door
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...young woman out of a large manila envelope, and asked if they had seen her around. Eventually he learned her address. On Tuesday morning last week, say police, he waited outside her apartment for nearly four hours. Finally he apparently rang her bell. When she answered the door, he allegedly shot her dead...
...cannot be fulfilled. Celebrities with the sweetest images may be the most vulnerable, perhaps because their seeming availability makes the frustrated fan's disappointment more intense. Thus an actress like Joan Collins who portrays bitchy characters may inspire hate mail, but those who are seen as the girl next door, like Schaeffer and Saldana, will attract fans who are potentially more dangerous. Those who kill "may feel that they are going to be united in heaven, or that the person is being taken over by devils and that they're going to save them from a worse punishment," explains Janet...
...drink heavily on board, in violation of company rules. Moreover, he was not discreet about his growing problem, and invited fellow crew members to join him. "It was almost like Joe was trying to get caught," says a fellow seaman who remains a close friend. "He'd close his door, but everyone knew what went on. He always said that everything was fine, but then why was he drinking? The guy was begging for help, but he kept it all inside...
...handwritten sign hangs beside the door of the Cavendish, Vt., general store: NO REST ROOMS. NO BARE FEET. NO DIRECTIONS TO THE SOLZHENITSYNS. An intriguing story can be read between these lines: not only the presence in this small (pop. 1,355) Vermont town of a world-renowned Russian author but also the determination of his adopted Yankee neighbors to protect his privacy...
Since the brutal Chinese crackdown in Tiananmen Square, many in Hong Kong have concluded that they would rather be anywhere else when Beijing assumes control of the crown colony in 1997. But Britain has slammed the door, saying it has no room for the colony's 3.25 million British subjects. And while the well educated and well off have found the promise of a warm embrace in other Western countries, Hong Kong's working class has felt trapped. So last week, when Singapore announced that it would admit 25,000 white- and blue-collar workers over the next eight years...