Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there were also some holes in the Herald's report. All the "art experts" who testified to the photographs' reliability refused to be identified. The paper said that along with the photos, it had obtained a pile of tiny chips of paint, but acknowledged it could not authenticate "beyond a shadow of a doubt" that the chips came from the stolen works. Furthermore, its source for the photos was one William P. Youngworth III, a 38-year-old ex-con and antiques dealer who is on his way to jail again on a car-theft conviction. Officials from the Gardner...
Taking a quick glance around the room filled with photos that now seem invisibly labeled "before" and "after," Mayer smiles and turns back to a pile of soft cover photo albums...
...fifteen chapters of the book, each of which could stand alone as an elegant short story, pile on thick layers of detail to create an intensely believable and likable character. Information given obliquely in one chapter may be stated directly, as background, four chapters later. But this repetition is never boring; the gradual accretion of detail makes the various twists and turns of Larry's life seem eminently plausible...
Yesterday, as friends and neighbors gathered outside at the Curley family's Hampshire Street home to offer condolences and add flowers to the enormous pile already strewn across a nearby parking-lot, most said they were just trying to help the family get through the tragedy...
...early-to-bed town of farmers was bug-eyed when the case broke, but few people in Champagne-Mouton knew Einhorn, a man who spoke little French and was seldom seen except to pick up his International Herald Tribune twice a week at the village newsstand. A pile of the papers ordered for him sits there now. At the nearby police station, the gendarme who knocked on Einhorn's door wonders if ever again he will see "FBI" on the same line as "Champagne-Mouton" in the papers. There hasn't been a single crime in the village since Einhorn...