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...members of the organization were already on trial for kidnapings and urban guerrilla attacks, one defendant named Prospero Gallinari suddenly stood up. Ignoring the judge's admonishments, Gallinari read from a statement held in his manacled hands: "Yesterday an armed nucleus of the Red Brigades executed the state hangman Francesco Coco and two mercenaries who were supposed to protect him." Police did not challenge Gallinari's claim. From composite sketches based on the descriptions of witnesses who had seen the five attackers flee, authorities had already zeroed in on one man, a 29-year-old Genovese named Giuliano...
Since the turn of the century, the sports that have attracted the masses have had the appeal of the unwritten contract: those who paid their way into the ballpark bought the right to be judge, jury, and hangman of the performers. The heroes chewed tobacco and prided themselves on looking fierce...
CHARISMATIC is too weak a word for Jack's foils. With the force of a Miltonic devil, he strides to his inherited seat in the House of Lords. At a fox hunt Jack incenses the party with a bellow for a hangman's society and leads them on to the slaughter with "Dem Bones" -- the first instance where the vaudevillian flavor leaves a sour after-taste (that is made still less delectable by a tasteless little shot of the fox, smugly relieving himself on a tree trunk. Is this Jack pissing in the face of society...
...naked figures, faces obscenely eroded by electric-blue shadows, sprawl on a bed. A man huddles like a baboon on the edge of what might be a swing, a coffee table or a hangman's drop. A Pope howls silently behind glass...
...broke into houses by ripping up roofs, and "palliards, tatterdemalions and clapperdogeons" were wanderers. At his trial Wild claimed that an unsuccessful mercury cure for syphilis had caused his mouth to water so copiously that he could not address the court without spitting. The judge refused a postponement. The hangman who hanged Wild had been a guest at his wedding. ∙John Skow