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...ours," he says. "That's what is so much fun for me: I'm stealing their stuff." He has occasionally steered away from overtly African-American subjects: Under the Double Moon (1989) is a science-fiction adventure about telepathic twins; Tania retells the story of the kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patty Hearst. Both operas demonstrate Davis' sure confidence with harmonic and melodic techniques that combine elements of both black and European tradition. "I didn't want to be boxed in, and it was necessary for my development to feel free," says Davis. "I can apply the African-American sensibility...
...lonely women who had been made foolish and poorer by the gigolo and his lieutenants were listed, sensitively, on the federal indictment only as Victim A, Victim B and so forth. But Victim L was identified there on the page: Helen Brach, the candy heiress who vanished 17 years ago. Where had she gone? Her name was on the ledger with Rub the Lamp, Belgium Waffle, Rainman, Roseau Platiere and Empire -- Thoroughbred horses that had been murdered for the insurance. Brach's body has never been found...
INVESTIGATIONS: The Heiress and the Horses...
Almost every state has at least one free-spending plutocrat. The first time New York voters met furniture-fortune heiress Bernadette Castro, she was four years old and perched on one of her family's fold-out sofas in a TV commercial. She appeared in dozens of Castro Convertible ads after that. When the New York State Republican Party chose her last month as its nominee for the U.S. Senate, they claimed that name recognition was a major factor. But there was another consideration: ever since her family sold the business last | year, Castro, now 49, has been sitting atop...
Gallows humor? No: a robust fascination with the depths of human experience. "John is actually more normal than he wants people to think he is," says Patricia Hearst -- yes, that Patty Hearst, once an heiress on the lam, now a regular in Waters' movies...