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People who have lived for a while with AIDS, or with any other life-threatening illness, will tell you what it does to their hearing. They put it in different ways, but what it comes down to is that the most ordinary conversation can cut like a knife. To begin with, the present tense has a whole new pitch. When you don't know how long you have, the simple words "I am" are enough to remind you of the unbearable lightness of being. With the past tense the problem is that you catch yourself saying, "I was..." and feel...
...pages of police complaints. And there are the scars: Kay and several members of her family still bear jagged reminders of Jackie's nasty handiwork. A few weeks before Kay shot her ex-husband, he stabbed Kay, her sister Debbie and Debbie's boyfriend William Robinette with a butcher knife--a crime for which he was out on bond when he died...
...most frightening of American autobiographies--Sophocles visiting Theodore Dreiser, with gothic touches, told in Chambers' incomparable prose style. "Dysfunctional" does not quite describe the Chambers family of Lynbrook, Long Island--the weird, derisive, mostly vanishing father, who was bisexual; the mad grandmother wandering the house at night with a knife; the mother who slept with an ax under the bed; the alcoholism; the beloved brother Richard who put his head in an oven...
...robbery, which occurred at 3:50 p.m., a student at the Graduate School of Education was robbed at knife-point by two assailants on Quincy Street, next to the library. The attackers fled with $90 in cash and several credit cards...
Only three days before that attack, another Harvard student had reported being robbed of $5 at knife-point. He said the attackers were two men who, in the early morning hours, approached his window in D entry of Wigglesworth Hall