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...managing an import store when Small stopped in near closing time to buy window blinds for her first apartment. Mack led her to a storeroom, where he grabbed a hammer and without provocation smashed it into her skull five times. Picking up a steak knife, he stabbed her shoulder and chest near her heart and slit her throat. He dumped Small in her car and left her for dead. Then he took in a movie...
...piles on its lower levels. In the pyramid of Cheops, encrustations of salt, left by the evaporation of brackish groundwater, have eaten away at the walls of the burial chamber. The Sphinx, a few hundred feet away from the pyramids, has lost a 600-lb. chunk from its right shoulder, and the neck is so weak that the statue's massive head is in danger of falling...
This need to look over his shoulder prevents Bush from taking as much credit as he might for his early successes. "If they draw too much attention to this approach of taking what you can get from the Democrats in Congress," says a Bush adviser outside Government, "they're going to attract more fire from the conservatives." Instead, Bush will soon emphasize his toughness on two issues dear to the right: his veto strategy to "hold the line" on the minimum wage and his plan to build more prison cells. As a wry college coach once put it, the trick...
Becky Gaffney got the "Kodak picture" play of the game. Gaffney took the ball next to the goalpost and, with her back turned, shot the ball over her shoulder into...
When the producers started showing their finished film to studio executives, the response was another collective cold shoulder. "It becomes a matter of power," contends Feldman. " 'We didn't want you to make this movie, and you did. Now you're going to suffer.' " Studio executives scoff at Feldman's conspiracy charges. "We passed on the movie because it was totally uncommercial and pretentiously arty," says one. Yet several prospective deals seemed to dissolve suspiciously, including one with New Visions Pictures, an independent company headed by director Taylor Hackford...