Word: goetz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...days after visiting the bookstore, Bernhard Hugo Goetz, 37, ended his nine-day flight from justice. Since pulling out a silver revolver on a subway and pumping bullets into four teen-agers who asked him if he had $5--leaving one of them partly paralyzed--Goetz had driven to New Hampshire in a rented car, returned to New York for one day, then taken off again in yet another rented car. On a crisp, bright afternoon in peaceful Concord, N.H., Goetz grew tired of fleeing. The pale, gaunt electronics engineer walked into local police headquarters and calmly told an officer...
...Goetz was a legend before the public even knew his name. He was dubbed the Subway Shooter, the Death Wish Vigilante. Like a scene from a Charles Bronson movie suddenly splashed into tabloid surreality, his violent act unleashed a torrent of conflicting emotions among those who cast him as either an urban hero or a reckless vigilante. While there was no evidence that the young men had actually attacked Goetz, all had criminal records and three were carrying concealed sharpened screwdrivers that could have been used as weapons. A police hot line set up to collect clues to the fugitive...
Father (Peter Michael Goetz) has the wheyfaced fatigue and resigned gallantry of the immigrant provider who got a foothold on U.S. soil only to have the Depression whittle it to a scrabbling fingerhold on survival. Simon is openly comfortable with the Jewishness of his characters, and he knows the dread words that are italicized whispers in this home: "cancer," "diphtheria," "heart attack...
...easy to get the idea that preppy Ivy League kids think we're idiots in uniforms," Goetz says, recalling one Brown routine that especially irked him. "The band P.A. announcer said, 'This was the second year West Point graduated girls, but we're still waiting for the first man. What's that supposed to mean? That's funny...
Still, that fifth beer is not the important thing for cadets on "trip section." While off campus, they can visit friends and family or tour Boston. "It's nice not having that omnipresent green raincoat standing above you for once," says Goetz...