Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...frenzied tabloid coverage in Rupert Murdoch's New York Post, including a cliched open letter to Son of Sam and a sensational-and false-report that the Mafia had joined the hunt because the killings were hurting mob-controlled dating bars and discos,* an air of suspicion spread through the city...
...fairly long dark hair, three did not. Stacy's was blonde. Only one of the parked cars was in a traditional romantic lovers' lane; the rest were on quiet residential streets. The geographical pattern first centered on neighboring parts of Queens and The Bronx, but then spread to Brooklyn, alarming all of New York City. Since Son of Sam's letter to Breslin was postmarked in New Jersey, the killer seems highly mobile...
...grappled futilely last week, police patrols cruised parks and lovers' lanes, noting license-plate numbers of all cars seen in such areas after midnight. Police have placed mannequins in some parked cars to simulate necking couples; the use of live decoys was considered too dangerous. Vigilante action was spreading. When a false rumor spread that a man seized by police in a car in Brooklyn for carrying two pistols was Son of Sam, angry crowds swarmed out of bar and threatened to attack the gunman. Police sped away with him for his own protection. The bitter yearning for revenge...
Viking finally decided to publish it. But perhaps the best thing would have been for each major U.S. publisher to issue a different snippet of the novel. The threat of lawsuits would thus have been spread evenly around the industry-and few readers, forced to put the novel together through separately published installments, would have had the patience or the cash to discover what an overwritten bore The Public Burning really...
...courses, which can cost up to $5,000, have produced more levity than levitation-so much so, in fact, that the Maharishi's movement could be laughed out of existence. But the 450 "executive governors" who teach the Siddhis remain undaunted and seem grimly determined to spread the new (and expensive) gospel. As Baltimore Lawyer and TM Teacher David Sykes, 28, explains it, levitation comes in three stages-hopping, or lifting off the ground a foot or two; then floating or hovering; and last, "actual mastery of the sky, flying at will." Adds Rashi Glazer, 27, a New Yorker...