Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than the House would have passed before Robert Kennedy's death. It will accomplish some useful purposes, such as banning over-the-counter sales of rifles, shotguns, and bigger weapons to most out-of-staters, those under 18, fugitives, mental defectives, felons and anyone under indictment for a crime...
...Interstate shipment of handguns to individuals and their over-the-counter sale to out-of-staters had already been prohibited in the previously passed omnibus crime bill...
...mechanics of juggling wife, mistress, and friend. There is a glorious scene when, after the announcement of the second killing, Chris goes to Paul's house to tell Paul they must "stick together, that's the main thing," that Chris will shield Paul who he assumes has committed the crime. The door is locked and Chris must deliver the speech from outside; he is suspended in geographic limbo outside both houses. He walks nervously about Paul's house half-looking for an entrance, then turns to look at his own house with its connotations of handling a wife and mistress...
...violently to destroy her, just as she (in Chabrolian fashion recalling The Third Lover) selfishly destroyed the tense harmony in which she was an outsider. Chris realizes spontaneously that Christine's unrequited love nonetheless was the center of his barren life; Audran screams about money; and Paul, innocent of crime but isolated from his familiar life-style for the first time, struggles half in confusion and half to prevent Chris from murdering Audran on the spot...
...Piggy's Sty. But try as he may, he cannot deny his muse, and she accompanies him on a desperate flight to Tangier after the murderer of a pop singer has pushed his smoking gun into bystander Enderby's hand. Disguised as an Arab beggar, Enderby plans a real crime--the murder of Rawliffe, a fellow poet who has stolen the plot of Enderby's magnum opus and made a movie from it. But the dying Rawcliffe's pure cynicism is so eminently pitiable that Enderby instead becomes a fast friend, and as if this small magnanimity had opened...