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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...diah need of three tickey-tickies to youah deah old American flicktoons.' " The Fancy Juxtaposition: epigraphs from Virgil and Mean Streets. The Self-Deflating Jape: "I am . . . the only survivor of a dying planet. I have come to rob all the women . . . rape all the men . . . and learn to do the Peppermint Twist!" And, most discouraging of all, the Unconscionable Length: 1,138 pages...
...left behind to suggest that Jessie ever lived there. Once the bags have been shipped to their intended charities, the knickknacks replaced and probably lost among her mother's already cluttered bedroom and the garbage emptied, Jessie's existence will have been effectively obliterated. And this, as we learn later on, is just how she wants it, for it is her intention to exit from life without a trace...
...jugs slated for immediate conversion to lamps, Thelma is blissfully unsuspecting of anything unusual, like a suicide, on the horizon. "Where are my house shoes, sugar?" she gurgles. "It's still light out sugar, why don't you come see the begonias?" And so, we are not surprised to learn that Jessie no longer ventures into the outside world...
...evidence presented last week suggested this is not the case. But at week's end AIDS researchers were stressing that the study was terminated too soon to learn if the drug prolongs life for more than just a few months or if it has any serious long-term side effects. And they were confident that AZT is not the ultimate weapon against AIDS, that other, more effective drugs will come along. "This is not the end of the story," says Jerome Groopman. "It's exciting to have a drug that appears to benefit patients with AIDS, but there...
...families, were either on this crime board or had carried out its racketeering dictates. "What you will see is these men," he said, "these crime leaders, fighting with each other, backstabbing each other, each one trying to get a larger share of the illegal proceeds. You are going to learn that this Commission is dominated by a single principle -- greed. They want more money, and they will do what they have...