Word: commits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attention given Bobbie may also remind people that he is articulating what many other prisoners feel but cannot express. They are terrified of the outside world and its demands, and they commit crimes-sometimes violent ones-to be returned to the security of prison. "Bobbie's case is extreme," says Warden Brewer, "but you'll find his story in every prison in the country...
...half he had fought the U.S. extradition demand. But impoverished Paraguay, threatened with the loss of U.S. aid (currently $9,000,000), finally gave him up. The State Department insists there was nothing unusual about the case. A person need not be present in a country to commit a crime against it. Ricord's Manhattan attorney, Herbert I. Handman, sees things differently. "If Ricord were involved in anything but a narcotics case," he says, "there would be a universal hue and cry." But the U.S. Supreme Court turned down his appeal...
White students, assaulted and insulted by blacks, get scared. Black students, who hate riding the trains for three hours every day to attend a school with an all-white administration nestled in an all-white community, strike out at the whites. The black parents voluntarily commit their kids to this school transfer program because they believe their kids can get a better education at Madison than they can at the decaying neighborhood school. White parents fight tooth and nail the entrance of more black kids into the school because they fear the fall of property values and they...
...shall be destroyed!"). A different alarm is sounded by the Italian parapsychologist Astaroth, 52 (real name: Claudio Giannantonio), who counsels members of the Rome political and movie set. Astaroth explains that comets disrupt the "psychomagnet-ic equilibrium" of the planetary system. He adds: "Human beings will be drawn to commit acts of violence-not only singly but collectively." In McFarland, Wis., the self-proclaimed head of the Church of the Odd Infinitum, Edward Ben Elson, is selling tickets at $10 each for his intergalactic spaceship ("No warranties expressed or implied"). He says it will take off Dec. 24 before...
...unaccustomed Feydeau touch in Chemin de Per, which has been stylishly revived by Manhattan's New Phoenix Repertory Company, is that it is sexier than most of his other farces. Here, the adulterers actually do commit adultery as well as catapult through the wrong doors at the wrong times. The chase is carnal and frantic, and the tone is leeringly Marxian (Groucho Dept.). Rachel Roberts is having her first affair, and John McMartin is the mad man in her life. As Bea Lillie once said, it's a case of"L'amour, the merrier...