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...subtly oafish flair to thejawline. Jessica Harper is frail, frazzled, wide-eyed and sad-mouthed in the '30s tradition of soiled ingenues. Bernadette Peters looks like the offspring of a Kewpie Doll and a Munchkin. Christopher Walken's face is a gigolo's death mask: the character lines have been ironed out, leaving only the dry-ice eyes and the knowing pout. As icons, these four performers would seem perfect for the bittersweet revisionism of this musical drama about a sheet-music salesman (Martin), his frigid wife (Harper), his nice-turned-naughty mistress (Peters) and his slick...
...ringleader of a cross-country crime wave. Police believe the suspect, sometimes with accomplices, was responsible for as many as 130 cases of rape and robbery in twelve states. He usually wore a ski mask. Sometimes he and his confederates tied up the victim's boyfriend or husband and left him within earshot while they committed the assault. As the toll mounted, no fewer than 26 law enforcement agencies from Florida to California joined in the investigation...
...Pontiac Trans Am in the town of Lake Charles that matched the description of a car sighted near the scene of a number of the attacks. The owner, John Simonis, 30, was placed under surveillance for five days until authorities were confident that he was the "ski-mask rapist." Once in custody, police said, he confessed involvement in 77 assaults...
...face of John Harvard in front of University Hall wore a mask of snow, with stones for eyes and mouth and a twig in place of a stogie...
...instinctive rivalry. Animal owners, however, are often more partisan than their pets. "I'm not a cat person, I'm a dog person," is a frequently expressed predilection. The cat is sly and fickle, say canine lovers. It is cruel, indifferent and, well, catty. Such deprecations may mask a deeper dislike...