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...people: 23 patients at Drake, five at a local Veterans Administration hospital where he used to work, and six others. Most were described as elderly and ailing. His methods, according to the report, ranged from cyanide, arsenic, rat poison or cleaning fluid to suffocation with a plastic bag or pillow. Police have refused to comment on the case, pending completion of the grand jury investigation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lethal Doses: Police probe 34 deaths | 8/24/1987 | See Source »

...scene and I could hear people yelling, but it was muffled, it was like they were talking into a pillow," said Nina Linton of Shelton, whose construction worker husband was helping rescuers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Building Collapses; Two Die | 4/24/1987 | See Source »

...book begins: "When I came down off the midnight shift I saw there wasn't any light in the restaurant window, and that was how I knew Lois had left me. I knew it sure, just like I knew there'd be that note in the pillow...

Author: By Paull E. Hejinian, | Title: Smart Enough To Be An Asshole | 4/23/1987 | See Source »

...oily blue smoke. The bus shudders intermittently as crew members wake and drop down out of their bunks. It shudders three times for Joe Burns, prop master: when he sits up and bangs his forehead on the bottom of the overhead bunk, when he flops back again on his pillow and, finally, when he throws aside the packing blanket and rolls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Iowa: Rolling Toward Peoria | 4/20/1987 | See Source »

...translated by Jadwiga Kosicka, benefits from lively staging by Arthur Penn and sensitive performances. Ron Silver bearishly evokes the descent from self-doubt to despair. Dianne Wiest (an Oscar nominee for her role in Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters) bubbles with fantasies of redemption: she stuffs a pillow under her clothes and says she will have a child; she tells an enigmatic joke and vows to become a stand-up comic. Each gently deflects the other in a tender marriage, unharrowed by grief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Streets Paved with Pitfalls HUNTING COCKROACHES | 3/16/1987 | See Source »

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