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Article: In Kidnap Pit, Mind Over Matter; Millionaire Describes Clutching at Sanity, Gripping Rescuer's Hand
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- The Washington Post
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- August 19, 1993
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He started each day clutching sanity by composing his
autobiography in his head. Then he thought back 35 years to the time
he read Arthur Koestler's "Darkness at Noon," drawing strength from
his memories of that famous account of solitary confinement.
Kidnapped, buried alive and held for ransom for 12 days in a 9 1/
2-foot pit about five feet wide on Manhattan's Upper West Side,
Harvey Weinstein said today that he "knew that the key was my mind
and not my body."
"There were many times when I lost faith," the tuxedo
manufacturing company owner told reporters at a news conference at
police headquarters. "I did lose hope. I begged and pleaded for my
captors to shoot me and leave my body on the ...