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...daytime because other "people are always rushing somewhere." In his private code, attacking women and old men is out. A middle-aged man going to fat is best, especially if he is "looking everywhere"?as people tend to do when carrying a lot of cash. Jones uses a knife rather than a gun. He watches in banks for big withdrawals, trails a storekeeper a few times to see when he goes to deposit the day's take. "What I do is wrong," he admits. "Deep, deep down I believe this. But man, it gives me life...
...path to ruin. Sad though it may seem, the world appears willing to forget-if not forgive-most crimes of terrorism and to eventually honor those it once called criminal. It must first, however, have some assurance that the terrorist has, to quote French Historian Philippe Vigier, "sheathed his knife" and washed the blood off his hands. ·Gerald Clarke
...invisibly rimmed by two figures far more powerful than she and her faithless swain. One is a poor man named Laca, who loves her with a ferocity that drives him to ruin her beauty-all that števa ever noticed about her-by slashing her cheek with a knife. The other adoring menace is her foster mother Kostelniča, the church sextoness and a respected authority in the village. When Kostelniča realizes that števa will not settle down and that Laca could not live with the child, she drowns Jenufa's baby. Though Jenufa...
...film (his first in 1972 was called When the Legends Die), soon knew she meant it. Several workdays began with Kate royally telling him how she and Duke thought a scene should be shot. Moaned Millar: "A hell of a way to start the day." Kate countered: "A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least." The open secret on the set was that Duke and Kate pretty well directed themselves. More than once, Wayne stormed at Millar for overshooting scenes. "Goddammit," Duke boomed, "we can say these lines just so many times before they stop making sense." When...
...robbers, wielding a knife and a silver-plated revolver, forced Michael K. Griffin '75 and Timothy B. Morgan '75 to the floor in their K-entry room along with their four companions. They then tied the students with rope and robbed them...