Word: prettier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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James Rouse's revitalization of Baltimore's Inner Harbor is almost as bad as the redesigning he did with Quincy Market and Nathaniel Hall. What an eyesore Baltimore's harbor will be now. If only the Orioles had a prettier city maybe their pitching game would be that much better...
...sitting in my brand-new Butler building surrounded by steel of high quality folded at ninety degree angles. The only thing prettier than ladies as an I-beam painted bright yellow. I told 'em I wanted a big door. A big door in front where a girl could hide her car if she wanted to evade the gaze of her husband the rat poison salesman. You ever been out with a ratpoison salesman? They are fine fellows with little red eyes...
...while her new mate is 4 ft., 11 in. The couple have known each other for eight years, and Shoemaker has watched her ride hunters and jumpers. "She's got a better seat than I do," he says admiringly. He also admits that "she's a lot prettier on a horse than I am." But not as much in demand at the tracks. The couple will forgo a honeymoon until the current racing season is over...
...this intermarriage and intermingling produce some tangled relationships and considerable confusion. When Agnes talks to Hareton about his father, she has to tell him and the reader exactly whom she means: "Your father Mr. Hindley, Mrs. Linton's brother." Later, things reach a prettier pass. Agnes is appalled to think that "not only was the Colonel Margaret's husband and the father of her unborn child, and the enemy of her father but he was also the lover of her mother and the father of Anthony and all this unbeknownst to the children. No wonder the knowledge...
...looking for some "sign" that the timing was right. Even such a chance event as the appearance of a convenient parking space was such a sign to Berkowitz. He did choose victims whom he considered "pretty," claiming he favored the Queens borough for a time because "Queens girls are prettier." He did not walk casually away from the murder sites and slip into the dark. "I ran like hell." He revisited at least two of the scenes of his crimes and tried to find the grave of his first victim, Donna Lauria, 18, whom he had not known...