Word: pillows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first victim, Annie Copeland, 84, was found slaughtered in her run- down apartment on March 1. Her apartment had been ransacked; she had been suffocated with a pillow and raped. Then, on March 6, Aretha Clements, 60, was discovered by her son: she had been strangled, raped and robbed. On March 11, Dena Mae Mike, 62, blind and living only a mile away from the others, became the third victim. By the time the body of Grace Hill, 68, was discovered on April 9, the police had already formed a task force to investigate the similarities in the murders...
...Carre excels at depicting this multitier personality. The most convincing dinner-party chatter, pillow talk and professional banter conceal howling secrets. Magnus' deepest one is that he is a double agent, a fact that becomes apparent about the same time readers realize they have fallen through the civilized surface of the novel. Betrayal comes naturally to Pym, himself the victim of bad faith and disappointments, revealed in flashbacks of youth, student days and beginnings as an operative...
Dershowitz' book also takes some personal jabs at von Bulow. The Harvard Law School professor wrote that after reviewing tapes of von Bulow's conversations with an associate, "I asked him to remind me `to bring a pillow the next time we have a long talk about anything...
...pillow on her head. I said, 'I like you, so don't feel bad.' Somethin' like that. I never said that to her before. Then we started talking about college, because she's going to college now, she knows what I feel. We talked and talked, but we didn't look at each other. All the time she was looking out the window and I was looking at my sleeping brother, but we were talking to each other. I was scared to look at her face. Then I made a joke, and she started laughing. And I started laughing...
...move worthy of the most secretive Santa, Angela LaRosa '88 was kidnapped by two guys who came into her room one night and told her that some friends of hers bad been arrested by the police. When she went outside, they threw a pillow over her head, brought her to a car, and drove in a circle back to Kirkland House where they took her to "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat." "I don't know what's going on," she says...