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...work: in one rape-murder, the victim was a 22-year-old, blue-eyed blond secretary who lived in a racially mixed middle-class community. She was happily married, did not smoke or drink, and had a pleasant, unassertive personality. She was found tied to her bed's headboard with the cord cut from a water mattress's heater. A washcloth was stuffed in her mouth, and she was blindfolded with her own sweatshirt. Her blouse was ripped open, and she was nude from the waist down. She had been raped and sodomized, and several objects had been inserted into...
...bathroom door Mallory has posted a sign: DO NOT USE UNLESS YOU CLEAN UP AFTER YOURSELF. Of the two other rooms, one belongs to Michael and Michael's mother Eileen. The other is Mallory's bedroom, nearly filled by a low queen-size bed with an upholstered maroon headboard into which a clock radio has been fitted. Above the headboard on a yellow wall hangs a huge novelty $1,000 bill, with Mallory's face where Grover Cleveland's would be. Beside the bed is a phone with a lock on the dial. "They want to use it," says Mallory...
...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...