Word: drifters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years never got up; they were electrocuted. But in Oklahoma, Texas, Idaho and New Mexico, electric chairs-along with gallows and gas chambers-will soon give way to a far less forbidding piece of lethal equipment: the hypodermic needle. Next week at the prison in McAlester, a hard-drinking drifter and murderer named Thomas Lee ("Sonny") Hays, 45, is scheduled to become the first man in the world to be executed by injection...
...this comprehensive and entertaining study, Kansas Journalism Professor David Dary deflates the mythic machismo of the bunkhouse and the open range. His real cowpoke is hardly an existential drifter on the Plains. Rather, he is a common laborer beset by the pressures of a hard life and slim wages...
When John Warnock Hinckley Jr., a 25-year-old drifter from Evergreen, Colo., allegedly shot Reagan and three others on March 30, the debate over handgun control resumed full-force. Former Sen. John Culver '54 (D-lowa), a liberal who lost his bid for re-election last November and who was a fellow at the Institute of Politics this spring, decried the nation's current laws, saying. "This is horrendous--no one is safe." Speaking at a fund-drive event in Sanders Theater, President Bok expressed his regret for the incident and related a phrase heard many times that...
Most, but not all, American assassins fit this group portrait: a young white male, a failure and a drifter, unloved and unloving; sexually dissatisfied, he has little or no contact with women. Ordinary murderers often come from violent homes or were violent as youngsters. But the assassins are deceptively calm, even passive. The pattern is that of shy, well-behaved, often mousy loners, whose efforts to control themselves succeed, until pressures explode in an assassination attempt...
...Postman Always Rings Twice (no one knows what the title alludes to), like the scripts to practically all the noir classics, is a treatise on lust and betrayal. Frank Chambers (Jack Nicholson), is a small-time drifter with a record of petty crimes, who is being drawn into L.A.'s vortex out of sheer statis. As James Cain conceived him in the 1934 novel. Chambers is a sardonic son of a bitch with no past to speak of, and no future worth mentioning. On his way to the city, Chambers drops off at a roadside diner to scam a meal...