Word: friends
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...married a mail-order bride from the Philippines, but she left him after only three months, accusing him of spousal rape. He also had a knack for making good investments: police found documents in his house showing that he owned $500,000 worth of stock. Heidnik and a friend who occasionally in the house, Cyril ("Tony") Brown, 31, were charged with murder, rape and kidnaping, and prosecutors said they would seek the death penalty against Heidnik. Twenty years ago, Heidnik's father, Michael, 74, a former Eastlake, Ohio, councilman, disowned the son, and he has not seen him since then...
...following her instincts," and this judgment is confirmed throughout the novel. Hillela's behavior, even at its loosest and least conventional, does not seem calculated but rather a natural response to the proper, perhaps even the moral, demands of shifting situations. Looking back on his time with her, a friend from the early days says, "She was innocent." Later, marked by personal tragedy and the rough- and-tumble life she has led in the "territory of exile," she seems oddly innocent still...
...lyric love of tall tales, his quicksilver charm, his stoic sense of duty and honor. & He manages to be at once real and of mythic proportions. The cast around him is also adroit, notably Mary Alice as his long-suffering but ultimately assertive wife, Ray Aranha as his best friend, and Frankie R. Faison, both funny and affecting as Troy's brother, brain damaged in combat during World...
...many of the lesser-known things in this show -- like the dense and acerbic paintings of Degas's friend Walter Richard Sickert, or Matthew Smith's responses to fauvism, or the work of the vorticists around 1914 (Wyndham Lewis, William Roberts, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska), or that of individuals like Stanley Spencer, David Bomberg, Jacob Epstein and Paul Nash, and so on through to the post-'60s paintings of men like Lucian Freud, Leon Kossoff, Frank Auerbach, R.B. Kitaj and Howard Hodgkin -- now strike us as not just a footnote to, but an essential part of, the visual culture...
Some returning minors were nabbed by agents of the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission, but many others got through. Explained one Indiana student: "All you do is give it to an older friend." On the island, the jail quickly filled to capacity (60) as cops contended with the rowdies. Police checked hotel lobbies and pool decks, carting off underage drinkers. But mostly the officers went easy, tolerating all but the nastiest drunks and even accepting credit cards for bond and payment of minor fines. "We're not hostile," observed Chief Ed Sanders. "We understand they're down here to have...