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...home-estimated to be twelve square miles-as a preserve that will be off limits to loggers, ranchers, miners and other invaders. But even well-intentioned visitors from the 20th century may undermine any future anthropological studies of the tribe; gifts of a bow and arrow, a metal bolo knife and sugar from Dafal and the investigating scientists are already moving the Tasaday out of the Stone...
...fault," said Frank Mandeville, for many years the owner of Timm's Hardware. "If he had gone in right away, some lives might have been lost, but not on the tragic scale we have now." Mandeville, who still doubts that the hostages were killed by police bullets rather than knife wounds, insists: "Political pressure caused Oswald to change his story." Like many other Atticans, Mandeville also thinks the assault was justified. "If the troopers had to kill some of the hostages, that was their job," he said. "I give them all the credit in the world...
Moments later, the prisoners marched four hostages to the top of Times Square. An "executioner" pulled back the head of each and held a knife to his throat. Elsewhere in D yard, grim convicts, taking up similar positions be side each of the other hostages, poised as if to kill them with either a knife or crowbar. Oswald turned to aides...
Twenty-eight men were saved ? far more than anyone could have predicted. It was a race between the gas, the knife and police...
Deep End is being advertised as if it were a sequel to Repulsion. But instead of ghoulish psychodrama, it offers canny black comedy. Executed with a surrealistic flourish by Polish Director Jerzy Skolimowski (who collaborated with Roman Polanski on the script of Knife in the Water), it transforms the rite of puberty into a frenzied and often wildly funny vaudeville...