Word: randomed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sometimes they devote an entire room to a celebrity, filling it with photographs and clippings, making it a sort of shrine. "Families should take this seriously," warns Dietz, "but they usually don't." The next step in the compulsion often involves travel, according to De Becker, first in a random pattern, then with a purpose: to follow the object of their desires...
POLAR STAR by Martin Cruz Smith (Random House; $19.95). In a sequel to his best-selling detective novel Gorky Park, Smith sets Moscow investigator Arkady Renko off on another bizarre case. The setting this time is a fishing boat on the Bering Sea; one dead body leads to others along an arc of increasing menace and violence...
...Random House...
Deaths by guns tend to be isolated, infrequent in any one community and seemingly random in their dispersion. The inanimate numbers, no matter how often they are repeated, cannot convey the heartbreaking stories that lurk within them. To attach faces to the statistics and find out where and how so many die, TIME has attempted to record every gunshot death in the U.S. in one full week. The victims on the following pages range in age from 2 to 87; they are black and white, Asian and Hispanic; they represent 42 states. The portraits are arranged...
...Random House; 386 pages...