Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...body of Jean-Luc Taron, aged 11, was found face down beneath the oak tree at 5:30 on the morning of May 27. The back of the neck was severely bruised, and the boy's nostrils were filled with loam, indicating that the murderer had used the soft forest floor for two purposes: to smother the cries of his victim, and to bring about death by suffocation...
...Chief Inspector Jean Samson of Paris' First Mobile Brigade, it appeared to be one of those senseless, psychotic murders committed by a madman who quickly gives himself away or else fades into the anonymity of the city and is never caught. But within a day of Jean-Luc Taron's murder, the case took a bizarre turn, and before the week was out Paris had been half-hypnotized with horror. For Jean-Luc's killer was a brazen publicity seeker, who taunted the cops and the newspapers with a barrage of telephone calls, special-delivery letters and threats of another...
Developing Image. To convince Chief Inspector Samson that he was indeed I'čtrangleur (the strangler), the criminal filled his various messages with details that only the murderer could have known. Jean-Luc had told him, the killer reported, how he had run away from home after lifting 15 francs from his mother's purse. He was tired of doing his homework (his last assignment: to conjugate the verb rire, to laugh), and when he left his parents' house on Paris' middle-class Rue de Naples, he was wearing a tan corduroy jacket and carrying a Bugs Bunny comic book...
BECKET. Church-state conflict turns friends to foes in a glowing screen spectacle based on Jean Anouilh's drama about England's 12th century Archbishop of Canterbury (Richard Burton), who dies defying King Henry II (Peter O'Toole...
...small company still need five or more years of maturing before they are ready to lay claim to the authentic "Stuttgart style" label some critics have already begun to discuss in glowing, enthusiastic terms. But one thing is already certain: not since the city's celebrated Ballet Reformer Jean-Georges Noverre set out two centuries ago "to smash the masks, to burn the wigs, to present a spirit which ranks high in the realm of the creative arts" has old Stuttgart seen so much style...