Word: furs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Painting, 1964) and the goofy, squinting face of her pet dog (Models with Manuel's Sculpture, 1961). In Brown's anything-goes color schemes, brooding burgundies, hot pinks and Velveeta-cheese yellows oozed from the canvas with gooey gusto. In drawings on paper, she even collaged strips of fake fur. McGaw produced more straightforward self-portraits and still lifes, while sculptor Neri's headless, armless mannequins tried to take the figurative program into three dimensions...
...Soviets, bundled in fur coats and hats, seemed unfazed, lining up before dawn outside the 700-seat restaurant, the first of 20 planned across the Soviet Union. The crush of customers was so intense the company stayed open until midnight, two hours later than planned...
...what Stuart did not count on in his perfect crime was that Matthew Stuart, 23, could break down. Matthew admired his brother's quick rise from slinging hash in a Revere restaurant at little more than the minimum wage to manager of a fashionable fur store on Newbury Street selling expensive coats to Back Bay dowagers. Charles may have thought that his younger brother would always be as grasping and pitiless as he was. Matthew seems to have borne out Charles' faith for two months...
...psychopath requires no motive for his horrendous deeds, but that has not stopped the search for one. Looking around for some love interest, investigators stumbled upon Deborah Allen, 23, who worked with Stuart for two summers at the fur shop. After Stuart's suicide, police discovered that she had used Charles' credit card to telephone him almost daily at the hospital. They also learned that several weeks before he killed his wife, Stuart and Allen visited her former prep school...
According to Stuart, the prosperous couple -- he managed a fashionable fur store, she was a lawyer -- were accosted as they left the hospital by a black man armed with a .38-cal. snub-nosed revolver. The robber, Stuart claimed, ordered him to drive to an isolated section of the racially mixed Mission Hill district, where he shot and robbed them. Police mounted an intense search for the killer in Mission Hill and the predominantly black Roxbury neighborhood. Black community leaders in Mission Hill complained that police were indiscriminately stopping and frisking 200 black men a day. With little evidence...