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...Grief-stricken families are blessed with perhaps the most extensive media attention, so victims can charge far more in case of their death--to be paid to their estates of course. Reporters love to surround parents who have had children recently slain, probing the emotional impact of the story in a sensitive yet hard-hitting manner...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: Terrorism's Untapped Potential | 9/24/1987 | See Source »

...chronicle of her "kinky and aggressive" sex life. After reading the diary privately, the presiding judge ruled that it contained no information relevant to the defendant's case. By that time, however, Levin's character had been impugned and the anguish of her family amply replenished. Her grief-stricken father has appeared in court wearing a JUSTICE FOR JENNIFER button...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Whose Trial Is It Anyway? | 5/25/1987 | See Source »

Intimate footage of anxious, grief-stricken, and even elated families added little to the news value of television broadcasts. It clearly boosted their commercial value...

Author: By David S. Hilzenrath, | Title: Caveat Emptor | 7/9/1985 | See Source »

...Grief-stricken, Simenon felt an understandable need to make sense out of Marie-Jo's suicide. He began a journal, addressed to his sons and particularly to his late daughter. His first entry assures her: "This book will be not mine but yours." Not true. As it took voluminous shape day after day, Intimate Memoirs be came exclusively Simenon's, his rambling attempt to prove, as he assures the dead Marie-Jo, that "I have nothing to apologize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Witness for the Prosecution | 6/18/1984 | See Source »

...drawn by an olive-green military scout vehicle. Walking immediately behind were the members of Andropov's family: his son Igor and his daughter Irina, who was wearing a stylish red fox coat. Andropov's widow Tatyana, whose existence was not publicly known before Andropov's death, was too grief-stricken to join in the procession. The Politburo leaders, almost indistinguishable from one another in their fur hats and look-alike overcoats with red armbands, led the last group of official mourners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko: Moving to Center Stage | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

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