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...waving. "To the moon, Alice." But if people on the one hand laugh off private violence, they become raving, sputtering mad about it too. "The pendulum swings to two extremes," says A. Nicholas Groth, a Connecticut prison psychologist. "Either people blame the victim, or see the offender as a fiend who ought to be castrated." As the analyses of private violence on the following pages show, the hard duty is to look straight at the problems and, neither laughing nor ranting, figure out what reasonable people can do. ?By Kurt Andersen. Reported by Barbara B. Dolan/Minneapolis, with other bureaus...
Among which, according to all sources, are the novels of Jacqueline Susann and/or Harold Robbins, bottles of Johnnie Walker Scotch and/or cognac, tennis racquets (he is called a tennis "fiend") and perhaps a book or two on China, in which he is thought to hold an "amateur interest." That is about as far as the pieces take us. We have the fact of his terrible eyesight, which might explain his fiendishness on the tennis court, and we have one instance of his sense of humor, when he urged a cognac on a reluctant dinner companion, telling...
Danny, a fiery cellist with wild red hair, played soccer like a fiend and took young girls for midnight riders on his Honda-destination always a mystery, Deborah, a violinist, was less flamboyant, but ended up in a tortuous love affair with a boy 15 years her junior. Pianists Sven and Andrew seemed normal enough behind the keyboard but suffered a manic addiction to killer basketball, in which the object was not so much to get the ball in the hoop as to tackle whoever had it while ripping to shreds as much clothing as possible. Others were downright eccentric...
...revenge couched in the name of justice. Polymestor (Oliver Ford Davies) is an erstwhile friend of Troy to whom King Priam and Queen Hecuba sent their youngest son, Polydorus, for safekeeping-along with a stock of gold. But in Greek tragedy, today's friend is tomorrow's fiend...
...Dracos-Fiend of Athens. Museum of Fine Arts, Saturday...