Word: faithfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...social service agency. But it had no supermarket for 60,000 residents, and no new family housing had been built in 20 years. Liberty City's needs were the needs of any neighborhood: a decent place to live, a grocery store, a barbershop. If young working families regained faith in the neighborhood, Pitts believed, they would become part of its healing...
...BLIND FAITH...
McGinniss now moves from the heinous to the despicable. Blind Faith is a highly stylized account of an upscale murder case in a small town on the edge of the Pine Barrens that, like so many New Jersey backwaters, has gone from quiet ruburb to bustling suburb in the past two decades. On the night of Sept. 7, 1984, Maria Marshall, 42, was shot to death while sitting in the family Cadillac. Husband Robert O. Marshall claimed he had parked the vehicle in a dark picnic area off the Garden State Parkway to inspect a tire. He further maintained that...
...hard to imagine more odious citizens than some of those portrayed in Blind Faith. The villain of Fatal Vision had a perverse stature and a demonic intelligence that are totally lacking in McGinniss's Robert Marshall. His fabrications and the entreaties recorded on love cassettes to his mistress suggest a ludicrous absence of self-awareness. Marshall's low animal cunning hits bottom when he exploits his sons' conflict between filial loyalty and the truth about their mother's death. McGinniss makes the Marshall boys' loss of innocence the emotional center of an otherwise lurid and coldhearted book...
...melodrama, the scenes and dialogue are liberally re-created by the author. Some of the dialogue seems too good to be true -- unless it appeared in a George Higgins novel. To readers this may seem like New Journalism, but to publishing-house lawyers it is safe storytelling. Blind Faith belongs to a subliterary genre designed for a litigious age. Unfortunately, these are the measures that are taken to ensure that true crime pays for the author, not his subjects...