Word: hear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Surprisingly, many Seattle residents seem unperturbed that the killer is still at large. "People hear the word prostitute and don't perceive it as their problem," says Task Force Detective David Walker. Pierce Brooks, an investigative consultant who worked on the California Onion Field killing of the 1960s and the Atlanta child murders of 1979 to 1981, believes the Green River slayer's name is already in the task force's files. Says Brooks: "The only way you're going to dig the name out is to hang on and keep going...
...subject of this piercing first novel. Author Robert Boswell smoothly oscillates from third to first person, giving the principals a chance to confess and dream. The voices are wholly convincing, and Boswell's apercus provide psychological criticism, as when Edward unconsciously utters his own epitaph: "No one wants to hear about a good man being good. It's the failings people want to hear." Wise father...
When trying to solicit funds, student organizations at the richest university in the land often hear expressions of protest from potential givers: "Why are you asking me for money? You guys are rich," or "I gave to Harvard already...
...there was no money mentioned, no will mentioned, no arrangement." The lawyer just asked about the family. After North returned from Tehran, the lawyer called again and inquired about the name of a family executor. North said he told his wife not to provide it, and they did not hear from the lawyer again...
...shirts and dresses, Hawaiian leis draped around their necks. Azcarraga's pudgy fingers are surprisingly agile on the organ keyboard as he pumps out the Scottish farewell. But then they should be. Although he is over 70, he plays this tune quite often. Most of the guests get to hear it pretty frequently too. "You say goodbye a lot around here these days," says Dick Morgan, who is being promoted to take over Cotton's job as the director of one of the Panama Canal Commission's three divisions. "Sometimes I worry about who is going to be left...