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Indeed, within a month of joining TIME in 1981, Andersen found himself writing about the execution of Steven Judy, who had killed a woman and her three children. Subsequent assignments included stories on John Hinckley, the would-be assassin of President Reagan, and last month's first execution by injection...
...citizenship or religion of the victims usually determined the degree of horror they would suffer. Death alone was rarely considered a sufficient penalty unless it was preceded by terror, torture and humiliation, preferably in public. One of history's most spectacular executions was that of Damiens, the unsuccessful assassin of Louis XV, in Paris in 1757. His flesh was torn with red-hot pincers, his right hand was burned with sulfur, his wounds were drenched with molten lead, his body was drawn and quartered by four horses, his parts were set afire and his ashes scattered to the winds...
Tavernier (The Clockmaker; The Judge and the Assassin) has enhanced the chilling irony of Jim Thompson's Southern-gothic novel Pop. 1280 by setting it in the blazing heat of French colonial Africa circa 1938. His script, written with Jean Aurenche, has a way of sneaking brutal truths home in comic forms that range from the bon mot to the shaggy-dog story. The film is all very dislocating: the audience does not expect to see black comedy played out in bleached-white settings or to find the soul of an existential epigrammatist lurking under a rumpled bush jacket...
Flamboyant Law Professor Alan M. Dershowitz, fresh from his successful defense of Lynette "Squeaky" Frame in her legal appeal, begins working to "clear the name" of Samuel Mudd, the Maryland doctor found guilty of assisting John Wilkes Booth by giving the assassin medical succor during his escape. In return, grateful NBC anchorman Roger Mudd--a descendant of the doctor--promises Dershowitz "all the air time he wants...
...other men decades in years. Reagan's face is still rosy, and if he has more wrinkles, they are not particularly noticeable. For a man of 71, he is in remarkable physical condition. The most prominent change since Inauguration Day is not the scar left by a would-be assassin's bullet in March 1981 but the 1½ in. of new muscle added to his chest by daily workouts with a weight machine in the White House family quarters. Says Presidential Assistant Richard Darman: "He is fantastically resilient...