Word: lexington
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...Gayl Jones. The writer made her name in the mid-1970s with transfixing tales of sexual violence and madness, stories of women skating the edges of insanity and the men who shoved them toward thin ice. On Feb. 20, a similar tale seemed to unfold in Jones' home in Lexington, Ky. When police tried to serve a warrant from a 15-year-old weapons conviction on her husband Bob Jones, he barricaded the couple inside their house and threatened that they would kill themselves. Three hours later, after the odor of natural gas filled the street, police, fearing an explosion...
...known as Bob Higgins. (He would later take her name.) In 1983, Bob spewed invectives and brandished a gun at a gay-rights rally in Ann Arbor. Charges were filed. The night before his trial, the couple fled to Europe. Ten years ago, they quietly returned to her native Lexington to care for Gayl's ailing mother. Then, last month, Gayl published The Healing, her first novel in 21 years. Reviews were enthusiastic; Newsweek ran a feature on her literary comeback...
...Lexington police read the story with more than passing interest. For the past year, Bob had besieged officials with claims that "racist" doctors at the University of Kentucky had kidnapped and killed his mother-in-law, who died last year of cancer. When the article disclosed that the increasingly threatening Bob Jones was Bob Higgins, the police moved quickly to serve him with the outstanding warrant...
...peeking out, speaking only when spoken to. But what she said was often brilliant. "Other students would turn to her and say, 'O.K., Gayl, what's the answer?' She always had the answer," remembers her 11th-grade English teacher, Sue Ann Allen. Gayl came to the attention of the Lexington-born poet Elizabeth Hardwick, who became an early mentor and arranged for a college scholarship. But as an adult Gayl resisted most offers of friendship. In Ann Arbor, she lived like a nun, alone in a threadbare apartment behind a grocery store...
...Starr succeeds in nailing Clinton, can there be any doubt that prosecutorial revenge will await the next Republican President? I fear the governance of the U.S. will take a backseat to political guerrilla warfare of the nastiest sort. JAY SMITH Lexington, Mass...