Word: crime
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...skeptical readers, publishers have made their superheroes fallible and thus more believable. Spider-Man cannot handle money or pay his rent. In a four-part DC Comics series called The Dark Knight Returns, priced at $2.95 an issue, a semiretired Batman drinks too much and is unsure about his crime-fighting abilities. DC promotes the Dark Knight as a "thought-provoking action story...
...generations later, the longings have grown more aggravated and the real horrors have metastasized. Terrorism and the Bomb, the breakdown of the ozone layer and the rise of crime -- almost any news item will serve to drive readers to distraction. Manhattan Psychiatrist Robert E. Gould finds that horror "is extremely distracting. That is one of the main purposes of its popularity. In difficult times, in the world outside and your own world, you reach out far from yourself. Also, you can control that horror. You can stop reading any time you want." His colleague Dr. Herbert Peyser agrees. In horror...
This relationship could be the most vital, sacred-to-secular crossover in The Name of the Rose. But, while both Connery and Slater are more than competent, Connery's William comes off as too wise, too crime-smart, too much the man who has the answers before you ask the questions. Too supernatural...
...Palermo, much of the evidence in the original Naples case was based on the testimony of pentiti (repentant) or vengeful organized-crime members who have decided to turn state's evidence. Prosecutors are worried that convictions based solely on the testimony of former Syndicate lieutenants will not stick...
Oddly enough, petty crime on the streets of Palermo has increased since a surprise sweep two years ago rounded up 53 of the prisoners now on trial. Investigators believe that with so many of the big bosses in jail, the lesser lights, with no other source of employment or income, have turned to purse snatching for pocket money...