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Perhaps the Theatricals wanted to prove that today's liberated man can wear high heels on stage and win the Vietnam war on film. Perhaps a large caliber handgun was applied to certain key foreheads. Perhaps the Pudding actually wanted to get Rodney Dangerfield but the invitation was delivered to the wrong address. Perhaps huge sums of money changed hands via numbered bank accounts in Bermuda. Perhaps the insanity defense is applicable. Who knows...
Cigarette smokers and handgun owners pose a far greater public health hazard than do AIDS carriers. Yet there are no suggestions to send them off to the gas chambers--oops, I mean "hospitals and special treatment centers...
...real policemen know that they rarely get good prints from a handgun and that any they do find are often useless. Fingerprints can prove that a particular suspect was at the scene of a crime, but when investigators have only prints and no suspect, the odds of finding a match are greatly reduced. Los Angeles police estimate that it would have taken a single expert searching manually through the city's 1.7 million print cards 67 years to come up with Richard Ramirez's prints. "Frankly speaking," says Commander Bill Rathburn, "most of the dusting for prints...
...stopped at a housing project on the west side of Chicago to see a girlfriend. As they approached the back entrance of a graffiti-scarred tenement, a group of youths taunted them. Delfonic approached tentatively, then turned and ran. One of the youths casually drew a .22-cal. handgun and shot him. "We had a good kid coming along," said Delfonic's grandmother. Now that he was becoming a man, she had gone out and bought him a new suit. "I had no way of knowing he would be buried in it," she said...
...allows that as a critic he "can only state his belief persuasively," and impose "opinions by main force of eloquence." For this critical duel, he chooses not eternal verity but rather eloquence at forty paces. This is a wise choice, for Epstein wields a pen like the most powerful handgun in the world, and in the course of the book, blows several heads clean off. Listen to him describe John Leonard kill a party of eminent essayists, into whose company an over-generous critic placed him. Epstein too is in attendence, but of all contemporary writers I disesteem John Leonard...