Word: headboard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...altogether different story. MacDonald, prosecutors said, had flown into a rage during an argument with Colette and beaten and stabbed her and Kimberly. Then he cold-bloodedly stabbed Kristen in her bed. To hide his crimes, the prosecution charged, MacDonald wrote "Pig" in Colette's blood on the headboard of a bed and then stabbed himself. Last week the jury found MacDonald guilty of second-degree murder in the slayings of Colette and Kimberly, and of first-degree murder in the killing of Kristen. Judge Franklin T. DuPree Jr. sentenced Mac-Donald, now 35 and an emergency-room surgeon...
...Save Your Own Life is written in six or seven different styles, ranging from academic hauteur (she says she was "amanuensis to the Zeitgeist") through Cosmo cute ("Bed reared its ugly headboard") to bewilderingly lifeless porn. The author's mind seems to have been softened by too many hours in a Malibu Jacuzzi. As if searching for a new definition of vulgarity, Jong writes that hostile criticism of her first novel makes her think of "Jews gassed at Auschwitz." (Actually, Fear of Flying was extravagantly overpraised.) She also contrives to turn the tragic suicide of Poet Anne Sexton (named...
...keep a diary were short-lived, but he has an observant eye and an astonishing memory for detail. Eleanor Roosevelt, he recalls, was "never once alone in the same room with her husband." Mamie Eisenhower, pink ribbon in her hair, propped up against her personally designed pink-tufted headboard, grandly issued commands at her daily bedside staff meeting like a general preparing for Dday. Jacqueline Kennedy instructed West to run the house as he would "for the chinchiest President ever elected." Why? Because, she confided, "we don't have nearly as much money as you read in the papers...
With the Sunday paper for sheet and blanket and a tombstone as headboard, the two young men sleeping in Boston's historic Old Granary Burying Ground last week looked at first glance like a thousand others of the city's derelicts. Waking at dawn, they warmed up in the Park Street subway station, washed their dirty faces in the Trailways bus terminal, then looked for work at a day-labor hiring hall. In fact, there was only one thing that separated Frank Huszar and Peter Dahm from the mob of down-and-outers in the hall. The others...
...Angeles doctor takes old X-ray pictures, adds a little yarn edging and creates startling place mats. In Research Engineer Peter Gottlieb's West Los Angeles home, one child sleeps happily beneath a headboard made of bright cartons of Screaming Yellow Zonkers, a beloved popcorn product. Or consider Dr. Richard Gieser's sparkling decor in Wheaton, Ill.: his sofa is an old bathtub on legs, with one side cut away, lined with pillows. His favorite chair is another tub, upended. It has, Mrs. Gieser says, "a nestlike quality...