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...Murder most foul," wrote Shakespeare of the poisoning of Hamlet's father, the King of Denmark, "most foul, strange, and unnatural." Even William Shakespeare might have trouble imagining a crime fouler, stranger and more unnatural than the Tylenol poisonings in Illinois. "This killer is so unusual," says Clinical Psychologist Samuel Roll of the University of New Mexico, "that our guidelines just don't work...
Billy Joel, in his ascent to unrivaled commercial success, never made us dance. In fact, as he carved out his comfy pop niche, he never made us do or feel much of anything. But on Piano Man, The Stranger and 52nd Street he described just enough familiar American experiences with enough pleasing, if not arresting music. We bought his albums and made him popular...
...investment deals being hawked about Wall Street, none is stranger than a mutual fund that was put on the market last week by Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc., the nation's largest brokerage firm. Most professional money managers, Merrill Lynch's included, have been sensibly enough urging investors anxious to take a fling in the market to put their money into stocks of blue-chip companies. But Merrill Lynch brokers now have a way to help investors who hate following the crowd and do not mind a risk or two. They can simply buy shares, at $10 each...
...days, you rounded up a bunch of your buddies after a long night in Lamont and--like a band of medieval knights seeking out the holy grail--you found your way up Mass Ave., turned right at the Long Funeral Home and...got lost. Fortunately, you found a ragged stranger, approached him. "Would you tell me," you asked with a gleam in your eye, "how to get to Steve's?" The stranger always knew...
...novel (her 14th), that Oates has undertaken to recount the saga of the five nubile Zinn sisters of Bloodsmoor Valley, Pa., circa 1880. For these young ladies, the trajectory of love follows the customarily lunatic lines of an Oates romance. The youngest Zinn, Deirdre, is snatched away by a stranger in "an outlaw balloon of sinister black-silken hue" as she sits crocheting in a gazebo. Sister Malvinia escapes the toils of Victorian family life in her own way: she makes a career as an actress and is courted by a singularly repulsive Mark Twain. Octavia marries a closet sadist...