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...making bombs and hand-drawn floor plans of six New York City police stations. In a Bronx apartment, state and federal investigators found a similar arsenal and diagrams, plus a newspaper dated one day after the robbery-indicating that someone had been there since the shootout. Both apartments were vacant when raided, but had been rented in the name of Nina Lewis, an alias police believe is being used by Marilyn Jean Buck, 34, another radical on the lam. Buck is known to have been a gunrunner for the B.L.A. and is believed to be its only white member...
...Craigie tenants' association originally complained to the rent board six months ago that Harvard had converted one apartment to an office and had purposely kept several others vacant after tenants moved...
...DeNiro's thin face, flexed body and slurred speech we recognize the tension of what it would mean to be cornered, to have no options. The eyes are inflamed, puffed with misery, or else vacant with the unsatisfactoryanaesthesia of TV, and we know something has got to give. We suffocate with Travis; there's no sex, no contact, no fun, just anger and loneliness and introspection...
...grand novel, was John Gregory Dunne's True Confessions. Taking as his real-life hook the grisly (and unsolved) Black Dahlia murder case, in which a young woman of no particular virtue was found here and there in a vacant Los Angeles lot in 1947, Dunne created characters who jumped, kicked and back-stabbed off the page. The Spellacy brothers-Detective Tom and Monsignor Des-played each other like a couple of harps and took down half the town's power elite when they played each other wrong. Dunne's was a misanthropic story that moved with...
...effort to fill four vacant tenured professorships, the Government Department recently appointed four committees to conduct separate searches for the posts...