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...Patsy Ramsey, who had just said the couple had read very little of the case, launched into an attack on "wacky journalists" and the things they "make up." Said she: "I mean, they write whatever they want to write. I don't know why they're so intent on..." Then a voice off-camera ended the interview...
...arguments pro and con are by now well known. One side points out that when a man has over 35,000 photographs taken of him and exactly two show him in a wheelchair, we can fairly conclude that he was intent upon concealing his disability. How odd, then, to honor a man by portraying him precisely opposite to the way he wanted to be seen...
...celebration, slices were smeared on the faces of the dead. None of those rumors were true. So what is the truth? "I can't comment on the motive," says Sussex County prosecutor Dennis O'Leary. "But I can tell you what it's not. There was no intent to rob. It was not an initiation. It was not a cult. None of the classic elements like revenge or greed seemed to be present. I think that's what bothers people. They want a reason." Franklin's peace is no more...
...tell a lot about a singer-composer's intent on an album by her choice of cover songs. The ones here, like Curtis' I Fought the Law, tiptoe toward depression, then poke it in the ribs. The broody lyrics of Nick Lowe's Battlefield ("All around there is desolation/ And scenes of devastation/ Of a love being torn apart") get swallowed and spat out by the jouncy banjo, the skiffle beat and the Jordanaires-style backing vocals, till the whole thing sounds like a minstrel show staged by Grand Ole Opry; everyone has a high time playing at misery...
...Epps said that allowing students a week of relaxation, with no academic responsibilities, was not the original intent of opening the houses early...