Ira Einhorn, who was convicted in the 1977 bludgeoning death of his former lover, Holly Maddux, requested a new trial in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas.
Congress shall make no law limiting the number of drunken karaoke songs one can perform before passing out; nor shall Congress limit the right to send drunken, apologetic text messages to ex-lovers with requests "to just cuddle," except in those cases in which the ex-lover has filed a restraining order.
But Milosz does not remember only the victims of violence; he recalls his cousin the French poet Oscar Milosz; a Polish actress who murdered her lover at his own request and became a nun after being pronounced not guilty; and, in "Miss Anna and Miss Dora," a pair of "old, poor, and helpless" spinsters, for little more reason than that "no one but me remembers their names anymore".
9. Red Pepper House by Urko Sanchez Architects: For this camouflaged vacation home in Lamu, Kenya, the client, a lover of nature, requested that the design preserve as much of the surrounding forest as possible.
The new Marmite bottle has been five years in development, apparently at the behest of Marmite lovers who wrote to specifically request the invention.
In 2008 the museum filed suit to assert its ownership rights to the painting, "Two Nudes (Lovers)," above, after a restitution request by the woman, Claudia Seger-Thomschitz, who said she was an heir to Oskar Reichel, who in 1939 sold the painting to the Viennese art dealer Otto Kallir.
I'd say it was all there in 1979's I Wanna Be Your Lover, Prince's first hit: the falsetto pout, the swivelling guitar riff, the effortless fusion of funk and pop, the teasing pause before the word "lover"… oh, and the request to "be your mother and your sister too".
In it, a woman describes in eye-watering detail the painful process of removing her pubic hair at the request of a lover – the smarting, the soreness and the vague discomfort of trying to comply with the fetish of a sexual partner.
That track's delight in noisy congress is echoed later in "Wake Up Everybody" – not McFadden & Whitehead's politicised call-to-arms, but a request that his lover throw open the windows so the neighbours can hear her screaming; though it does hark back to an earlier era through its pleasing echoes of the snappy, popping bass groove of Patrice Rushen's "Forget Me Nots".
As I drove I would turn the radio up, find a show playing requests for all the lovers strung out across the wide night.
