Word: monticello
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...David Mullins, the Salt Lake City Deseret News correspondent in Price, Utah, a mining town 125 miles south of the state capital, was celebrating the holiday by watching his four-year-old daughter wave sparklers in the warm desert evening. Then the phone rang. Murder had been done in Monticello, a tiny village 150 miles away. Correspondent Mullins, whose beat covers four counties and 17,488 sq. mi., is thoroughly conditioned to long-distance assignments; he wasted no time getting to work...
...killed Mrs. Jeannette Sullivan, 41, and vanished into the desert with Mrs. Sullivan's teen-age daughter Denise (TIME, July 14). Cursing his reportorial luck-the timing meant that the evening Deseret News's competitor, the morning Tribune, would print the story first. Correspondent Mullins forgot about Monticello and headed for Dead Horse Point...
...effect presents an annual play in 250 acts. In outline, the soaper as reborn on TV is not too different from the old radio formula, but video has added a whole new set of visual symbols-for instance, the ferocious grille-work of a noncurrent Buick under which Monticello's noble and innocent Sara Karr lay unconscious last month...
...that, the Karr protégée and family friend, Judith Marceau, a beautiful social worker, is currently facing a charge of murder (false, naturally) for the killing by paper knife of her handsome, brilliant husband-of-one-hour, Victor Carlson, of the socially eminent Monticello Carlsons. As the loyal viewer of Edge well knows, the marriage was performed by a fake J.P., the bogus rite having been staged by Carlson himself, a racketeer with a clipped, cultured accent and a Byronic lip twist, who quoted Nietzsche, drank sherry and drove caddish foreign cars. About the only nice thing...
Existential Despair. The extraordinary thing about Monticello is its ordinariness. The habitual viewer knows that it has industry, because Winston Grimsley, a fuddy financier, is the grey eminence of these modest family fortunes. It has an airport -a villain once took off and fell from a plane whose flight originated in Monticello. It also has a sewer system known to those who saw two villains trapped in it for many a long mortal episode. It has a symphony orchestra-a villainess has set up an alibi at one performance. Only one human element, so essential to the life...