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Rotnney's buffet was equally grand and in true Republican form, emphasized red meat. At a carving station, a chef sliced roast beef. Three slices were available...
Glyndebourne houses many communities -- the hungry opera fans, the corporate swells with their rare-roast-beef complexions, the county gentry with their picnic hampers. There is also a large, thriving musical community in the folds of the Sussex hills. Singers who come as students stay on to buy houses. Performers who have gone on to bigger things return because of the good friendships and relaxed pace...
...NAACP says electrocutions have gone awry eight times since 1976. A weak current caused convicted cop-killer Joseph Tafero to roast to death for six minutes on May 4, 1990. When the switch was flipped, 6-in. flames and smoke spewed out of Tafero's head. The power was stopped, and witnesses saw Tafero inhale deeply several times. It took two more jolts to kill...
...ROAST THE EXECUTIVE STAFF OF THE HARVARD STUDENT TELEPHONE OFFICE ON A SPIT UNTIL THEY BEG FOR MERCY...
...groomed, well-to-do white people, and the deeds are neat, bloodless, imaginatively staged. In recent weeks we have seen a magician drown in a tank of water when his escape trick is sabotaged (Diagnosis Murder); a late-night TV host electrocuted by his microphone at a Friars-type roast (Burke's Law); and a manic-depressive book editor driven to near madness and pushed off a building roof to feign a suicide (Murder, She Wrote). Murders are never random or accidental or committed in the heat of passion; they are carefully planned by people with clear, easily understood motives...