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...Fay: It' common knowledge what police procedure is. They must have a search warrant...
...Fay (Cori Lynn Peterson) is the dead woman's nurse who has been mysteriously widowed seven times ("Once a year on average since I was sixteen," she notes calmly). She has her eyes on the now-available Mr. McLeavy (John G. Knepper) and his fortune...
Peterson also stands out as the attentive, homicidal nurse Fay. Her performance is polite and ladylike; it captures the tension between Fay's obsession with proper appearances and her total unscrupulousness. The straight performance allows Fay's essentially nasty and avaricious nature to emerge from the lines themselves, Plotting Mr. McLeavy's death, she remarks with an innocent air: "we'll bury your father with your mother. That will be nice...
...Chicago Cub fans (columnist George Will is a particularly lachrymose example) wailing about how their beloved North Side team has not been in the World Series since -- horrors! -- 1945 or actually won one since -- worse horrors! -- 1908. As if to take pity on the star-crossed Cubs, Baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent arranged for the club to play an easier schedule starting in 1993, a move prompted by the fact that the National League will grow from 12 to 14 teams next year. Sure, long-overdue geographic reform played a role in the four-club trade: the Cubs...
...during our hike back toward the Ndoki River that we come upon the band of chimps -- an encounter Fay calls "the signal wildlife experience" of his 14 years in Africa. The ruckus the apes raise begins with threats and distress calls, but some of them seem to let out the hoots that chimps use to greet one another. I would like to think these chimps have the capacity to welcome the apelike aliens into their forest...