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...true, this powerful collection of three short novels deserves every bit of attention it can get. The title does, after all, describe the book perfectly; the three novellas are linked thematically by it. More precisely, it is the breaking of search and seizure laws. Elkin's heros are badmen, who justify their acts through mixed-up metaphysical rules reflecting all of the saturnalian immediacy of today's politics. At the same time, they express deeper strains of human nature which will ensure Elkin's place among the best of modern novelists...
MOVIES ABOUT country boys who come to the city to make it big used to be made about tycoons and entrepreneurs. The rise of rock as the most dynamic mass art form has passed the heroic mantle from businessmen and badmen to rock stars. And rock has accentuated a theme which has always been implicit in the hero as desperado: a morbid fascination with living life as quickly as possible, with life only in the present, and pain collapsed into conclusive drama...
...outlaws whose future narrowed along with the Frontier. By 1900, the West was getting settled, the banks and trains were well guarded, and there was no place to go but down-to South America. In the newly rich country of Bolivia, they attempted to recapture the past by becoming badmen again...
Fleeing from some unnamed shoot-'em-up. five badmen ride into the tiny frontier town of Firecreek, where they settle down while Fonda recuperates from a bullet wound in his side. The sheriff turns out to be earnest, mild-mannered James Stewart-a simple sodbuster who carries no gun and wears a badge emblazoned SHERAF that his kids made for him. Fonda has the wound.in his side, and later his wounded psyche, nursed by a local spinster (Inger Stevens), while his boys raise hell with an itinerant preacher (Ed Begley), smash up a saloon, and try to gang-rape...
...smalltime chiseler under indictment for fraud and suspected of being a loan shark. A onetime associate of the late Punchy McLaughlin, he died of a crushed skull and, for good measure, garroting. Whether they choose firearms, rope, blunt instruments, knives or a combination of weapons, the Boston badmen almost invariably indulge in overkill...