Word: berkowitz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...name in the logbook last October. That act, they say, may indicate that he was losing what little remained of an obviously fragile sense of identity. "He had a superidentification with Lennon, but he was also in competition with him," says Manhattan Psychiatrist David Abrahamsen, who examined David Berkowitz, the "Son of Sam" killer. "His murder of Lennon was a substitution for his own suicide...
However, the mirth is only the means to a more serious end. Ted Tally, who wrote a somber tribute to the moral courage of polar explorers in Terra Nova, now explores the contagious terrain of venality. He asks, in effect, How do creatures such as David Berkowitz ("Son of Sam"), Jim Jones and Gary Gilmore, men who occupy an appalling moral void, arc to celebrity status save for the vulpine collusion of the goldbugs - agents, publicists, the press, TV and films...
...Marc Berkowitz, vice president of the Boston-area food chain, said yesterday Legal's fish market will reopen within three months just behind its old site in Inman Square...
...Inman Square site may eventually also house Legal's company offices, Berkowitz said. The chain is considering several kinds of buildings--including a high rise--but "all that depends on zoning," he said...
...Cambridge is now interested in bringing business back into the city," Berkowitz said, adding "It hasn't always been that way." He said one reason for moving to Kendall Square is the lack of parking space in Inman Square--a lack he said the city had been reluctant to fill...