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...year-old house in a blue-collar neighborhood of Birmingham when two young white men pounded on their door. "You come out here," one said to Nunnally. "We don't want the woman. We want you." Peering out, Nunnally thought he saw one of the men holding a rope or chain. As they pulled on the door, breaking its bolt, Nunnally grabbed a gun and fired through a curtained door window...
Just two weeks ago, Patrick Baltazar, 11, had been found asphyxiated behind an office building in De Kalb County after he had disappeared from the Omni amusement complex. Medical examiners have ascertained that Baltazar was strangled by a rope in the same manner that Terry Pue, 15, was killed three weeks earlier. Fibers found with Baltazar's body may provide evidence that links his death with five others. A dental assistant, who said that she had seen a man in a green car near the place where Baltazar's body was discovered late the same day, was hypnotized...
Hannah's characters were always at the very end of a very frayed rope. But still, they were refusing to go down with any sort of literary decorum. They wanted to tug on your coat for a minute. They wanted to explain things, to explain how it was to be so much in love that it was "driving you into a sorry person." They were yahoos and warriors, gigglers and killers, they were pilots and brain-damaged tennis pros. If they were funny--and they usually were--they were also noble as the last minutes of desperation dragged...
...supporting the cuts. Said he: "Many Democrats are inclined to let Reagan have what he wants. Then, if the economy is still in a mess in the election years of 1982 and 1984, he'll have to assume all the blame. The phrase is, 'Give him rope to hang himself...
...changing no longer seems as important as it did in 1900, or 1930, or even 1960. When one speaks of the end of modernism, one does not invoke a sudden historical terminus. Histories do not break off clean, like a glass rod; they fray, stretch and come undone, like rope. There was no specific year in which the Renaissance ended; but it did end, although culture is still permeated with the active remnants of Renaissance thought...