Word: killers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Among the nonjournalistic winners: Playwright Edward Albee for his drama Seascape; Novelist Michael Shaara for his book The Killer Angels; Biographer Robert A. Caro for his epic The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York; and Historian Dumas Malone for his first five volumes of Jefferson and His Times...
Unsexy Billy Rose. This week he starts work on Sam Peckinpah's Killer Elite, then he may appear in Francis Ford Coppola's The Apocalypse. It is only three years since he appeared in the sleeper Brian's Song and then exploded with the intensity of a young Jimmy Cagney to become a star in The Godfather. Now, after Cinderella Liberty, The Gambler, Funny Lady and the upcoming sci-fi drama Rollerball, he is one of the five top box office draws in the country...
...communicate with a cuff and a twist of the ear, they love each other as they fight, like Nick and Nora Charles in The Thin Man. Getting up from the TV floors when you're five years old and trying to bash your sister with tiny hands is no killer instinct. It just made a vulnerable kid feel assertive and not so vulnerable anymore. The Stooges hurt each other like five-year-olds...
...Giant Killer. He hardly needed such help. Even Daley's staunchest foes had to agree that he won on his popularity among the city's voters, not just because of the machine's tactics. The opposition had attacked Daley's age and frail health (he suffered a stroke last spring), the scandals of his administration, rising crime and deteriorating public schools. But most Chicagoans hold an abiding admiration for Daley and went overwhelmingly for the status quo. Explained former State's Attorney Ben Adamowski, a onetime critic who endorsed Daley this time: "When the ship...
...wanted the money to go to Spain. The police theorize that when she refused him the money, he killed her. "Eben Gossage is our only suspect at this point," said Homicide Inspector Kenneth Mannly. Grim argues that the incriminating evidence could easily have been planted by Amy's killer or killers. And companions of the brother and sister insist that there had been no conflict over the trip. Says Graham Nash: "Amy told me she wanted to go to Spain with her brother to help him get clean of drugs...