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Despite the coldly premeditated nature of the slaying, public sentiment in Cheyenne began shifting to the alleged killers as details about the Jahnke household emerged. Said Richard's high school ROTC instructor, Major Robert Vegvary: "Something monstrous and horrible must have happened at home." Indeed, to hear local residents tell it, something had. Though a devoted father, the elder Jahnke was described by those who knew him as an ultrastrict disciplinarian with an explosive temper that often boiled over into physical violence. He doled out severe beatings to his children for the most minor infractions; his Puerto Rican-born...
...thoughtful, trenchant, and lively new book, The Education of David Stockman and Other Americans. Grieder is the former Washington Post editor whose interview in The Atlantic Monthly with Stockman, President Reagan's sharp 35-year-old budget director, blew Reaganomics' ideological cover and made "trickle-down economics" a household expression. Now the national affairs editor at Rolling Stone, Grieder has updated the Stockman interview, in which the budget director admitted that the president's economic program is unworkable and ill-considered, making a book out of it by adding a collection of essays on the Reagan Revolution and the media...
...join the whirl and bustle of life in Moscow, but instead they remain in their small town, their hopes and expectations gradually shrinking to fit the confines of their humdrum existence. Directors typically use elaborate, crowded Victorian set designs to suggest the cramped nature of life in the Prozorov household...
...Suzanna Hamilton)has been severely brain damaged by a hit-and-run accident four years previously, and is now taken care of by her mother(Joan Plowright). Pretending to be an old friend of Patricia's named Martic Taylor, the young man gradually insinuates himself into the Bates weary household through an artful combination of flattery and false innocuousness...
BARBAROSA IS THUS NOT so much about these two men as about the legend that engulfs them both. Barbarosa, having escaped from the grave of his enemies by playing dead, goes back to the Zabala household. Inside they are already singing songs of his latest exploit, renewing the legend with their soleman incantations to kill him Barbarosa's smile belies his rapt attention, his pleasure at playing the role of mythical phoenix of the desert: in truth he thrives on the menacing proximity of the Zabalas...