Word: killers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proceeds to his awkward efforts to date her, ends when he takes her to a skin flick. It makes a nice little essay in the confusions of cross-cultural courtship. However, Travis' failure as presented is more farcical than tragic, and it never adequately explains his becoming a killer. He acquires a small arsenal of guns and starts stalking his lady's candidate...
...variety hours, RICH LITTLE (NBC, Monday 8 p.m. E.S.T.), which uses its star's talents as an impressionist very shrewdly. Since there is no one Little cannot imitate, there is no area of show biz he and his cohorts cannot satirize. The program is up against killer competition (Rhoda and Phyllis) but well worth channel switching to catch...
...Bees, the repertory company dressed up in striped costumes with springy antennae, who descended on a startled host. But nobody laughed. Then Candy Bergen fell in love with them and became a Bee for the Bee-capades. Now the Bees are a staple. Recently they became South American killer bees who crossed the border crying, "Your pollen or your wife...
...demanding jobs for the unemployed. Before he died, Martin Luther King Jr. had been immersed in planning a Poor People's Campaign with the same goal. Then came the sniper's shot that killed him in Memphis on April 4, 1968, the two-month pursuit of his killer, and the swift conviction of a smirking, small-time thief named James Earl Ray. Yet nearly eight years later, the widespread feeling still persists that King's murder has not really been solved...
Christie was a well-established writer when her controversial The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was published in 1926. Purists complained because she did what no detective-story writer had done before. She revealed the killer as none other than the book's narrator. Publication of the novel coincided with another first in the author's otherwise scandal-free life. For two weeks in December 1926, Agatha Christie, 36, was officially a missing person. A frenzied nationwide search led to a Yorkshire hotel, where she was found registered as Tessa Neele, the name of the woman Colonel Christie married...