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...SETUP Dexter is a forensic analyst with the Miami police department, specializing in the study of blood-spatter patterns. Dexter is also an emotionless serial murderer, driven by a remorseless alter ego he calls the Dark Passenger. He only kills people who deserve it--isn't that nice?--but when another serial killer starts preying on the citizens of Miami, Dexter hears the call of a kindred spirit. Or possibly some very unfriendly competition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: If You Read Only 10 Trashy Novels This Summer | 7/19/2004 | See Source »

...waits in the doorway and will one day reach for him. We will continue to cherish the fact that we walked away from our old battlegrounds and discovered how much better peace feels. We will look at each other through the clear glass of the present, not the mud-spatter of the past. What a pity the producers missed out on that part of the story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'The Reagans,' From One of Them | 11/4/2003 | See Source »

...been established that she's been in the apartment, so finding her hair wouldn't be a surprise. But if you find multiple hairs with roots attached, that could indicate that it was pulled out forcefully. Or there could be microscopic blood spatter - these are things that are invisible to the naked eye but can be seen with (available technology), and that would be very suspicious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Trick a Polygraph | 7/11/2001 | See Source »

...Spatter might indicate that it was created by a forceful traumatic event. The spatter pattern can reveal a lot about what created it. But the bottom line is they're going in to a scene that hasn't even been established as a crime scene. They have to collect evidence so that later, if they need to, they can go back and make sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Trick a Polygraph | 7/11/2001 | See Source »

...book's 60 lyrics, but the Boss Cupid of the title is not the chubby winged cherub of popular lore. He is something of a hooligan, "devious master of our bodies," wreaker of joy and havoc: "Love makes the cuckoo heave its foster-siblings/Out of the nest, to spatter on the ground." Pleasure is the other side of loss. In "American Boy" Gunn writes, "Expertly you know how to maintain me/At the exact degree/of hunger without starving. We produce/ What warmth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poems of Love And Death | 4/24/2000 | See Source »

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