Word: hooks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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TEXAS 94, TCU 6--Hook 'em, 'horns...
Just off old Highway 81 near McPherson, Kans., writes Jan Harold Brunvand, there is an unmarked lane known to young couples as Hookman's Road. One night, a teen-age boy and girl were parked there when they heard over the car radio that a killer with a hook for a hand was on the loose. The girl became frightened and demanded that her companion drive her home. Angry, and perhaps a bit uneasy himself, he roared off abruptly. When they arrived at her house, he went around the car to open her door. Dangling from the handle...
Tellers of the story swear it is true even though there are many tellers and many datelines. Brunvand, 48, professor of English at the University of Utah, says reports of the bloody hook have surfaced in Maryland, Wisconsin, Indiana, Texas, Arkansas, Oregon and parts of Canada. The hook has been hung up on so many door handles in recent years that either Detroit has begun issuing it as optional equipment or the story has become nothing less than an American folk tale...
...this Pandemonium like an animal trying to unwind. He is an underground man for America, condemned to try to live a quiet life in enemy territory. But things won't leave him alone. Ther's no relief from the loneliness and frustration; The city never lets him off the hook. The world is a no-parking zone. All that remains is relentless movement, ugly rooms, ugly people, and dirty minds. No compassion. No grace. It just keeps coming. There's no pressure drop, no possible release. Spoken language is foreign to Bickle, and when he gets a date with Betsy...
...grand novel, was John Gregory Dunne's True Confessions. Taking as his real-life hook the grisly (and unsolved) Black Dahlia murder case, in which a young woman of no particular virtue was found here and there in a vacant Los Angeles lot in 1947, Dunne created characters who jumped, kicked and back-stabbed off the page. The Spellacy brothers-Detective Tom and Monsignor Des-played each other like a couple of harps and took down half the town's power elite when they played each other wrong. Dunne's was a misanthropic story that moved with...