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...insists at one point; elsewhere, he disguises his own bite with barely detectable assonances like "hankering" and "merry thing." He toys with words to tickle emotions. In "Dawn Song," a man gets up after a night of lovemaking and praise from his partner, and faces himself in the bathroom mirror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Five Voices and Harmonies | 3/15/1982 | See Source »

...about praying when you aren't religious and about going to the bathroom every half hour to check you underpants, hoping that there will be red, a brown spot. It is about fear and pay phones and pregnancy tests at UHS, urinating into a plastic bottle first thing in the morning and then spending the rest of the day waiting in Lamont until 4:00 when the test results can be called for from the pay phone. It is about waiting on the phone sometimes for 20 minutes until a nurse practitioner is available to announce the results and present...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Abortion | 3/8/1982 | See Source »

...once accepted a ride from Williams, who began fondling him, and then parked in a secluded woods. Said the boy: "When he went to the trunk, I jumped out and ran." One witness claimed that while visiting Williams' house, he saw children's clothing on the bathroom floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spinning a Web of Evidence | 2/15/1982 | See Source »

Escorted by two corrections officers, Miller used the presence of going to the bathroom to slip out of the building. The officers notifies University and Boston police, but a search of the area was unsuccessful...

Author: By L. JOSEPH Garcia, | Title: Police Blotter | 2/12/1982 | See Source »

...verdict of first-degree manslaughter is applicable when the killer is found to have been in the throes of "an extreme emotional disturbance." On the night he was killed last July, Adan had explained to Abbott that his tiny, bohemian café lacked a bathroom for customers. He then led the ex-con outside to show him where he could discreetly relieve himself. Yet Abbott's 24 years in violence-steeped prisons and reform schools, Fisher argued, had caused him to mistake Adan's ordinary gestures for provocation. It was a "tragic misunderstanding," Abbott claimed in court, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Abbott Is Guilty | 2/1/1982 | See Source »

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