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...Crimson reporter was already stationed inside the office. Unfortunately, he could not get out to use a telephone or speak with editors, since police would not have let him return. So the reporter was forced to communicate by scrawling notes on a pad, and pressing them against a glass window, where an editor could read them...
...creating fashions that are unfrayed and that grace the human form. Similarly, motion-picture and television producers and exhibitors may realize that a substantial audience exists for something more appealing to the human eye and spirit than the sight of a human being hurled through a store-front window or tossed off a penthouse terrace. There might even be a salutary response to films that dare to show people expressing genuine love and respect for one another in more convincing ways than anonymous clutching and thrashing about...
Nancy Cruzan, now 32, has done nothing for the past seven years. She has not hugged her mother or gazed out the window or played with her nieces. She has neither laughed nor wept, her parents say, nor spoken a word. Since her car crashed on an icy night, she has lain so still for so long that her hands have curled into claws; nurses wedge napkins under her fingers to prevent the nails from piercing her wrists. "She would hate being like this," says her mother Joyce. "It took a long time to accept she wasn't getting better...
...thread. For more than a year, against his will, he endured excruciating treatment: his right eye and several fingers were removed, his left eye was sewn shut. His pain and his protests were unrelenting. One night he crawled out of bed to try to throw himself out a window, but was discovered and prevented...
They thrusted, they gyrated, they pulsed to the beat. Throngs of partygoers stood on the window sills and shouted. Two men got down on the floor and showed Eliot House how to really let loose...