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...Knife. This week Bugliosi plans to bring to the stand the only defector from Manson's apparently total control, Linda Kasabian, 21. Mrs. Kasabian is the mother of two; her second child was born recently while she was in jail. Like many of Manson's young women, she came from a broken home. When she left her second husband for the desert life, she took their child and a friend's $5,000 with her. She was indicted along with the three other women but has been granted immunity in return for her testimony.* According...
...insanity of war and struggling to escape. Undergraduates still see Yossarian as a lionly coward, the first of the hell-no-we-won't-go rebels who had to go anyway. To them, the book's final sentence limns the human condition as well as the hero's: "The knife came down, missing him by inches, and he took...
...concomitant of wisdom. Like Through the Looking Glass, Catch-22 overturns commonplaces and makes them fresh. Its optimism is despairing; its doubt is born of faith. "When Yossarian runs away in the end," says Heller, "I never said that he would get all the way. I wrote: 'The knife came down, missing him by inches, and he took off.' But he tries, he changes. That's the best that can be said for any of us." It is the best that can be said of Nichols, who with this major film has discernibly altered not only his career but himself...
...forewarned. He met Zelda in 1918 when she was the belle of Montgomery, Ala., society and he was an Army lieutenant. The very first time Scott was invited to dine with her parents, Zelda so goaded her father that he chased her around the dining table waving a carving knife...
...whatever day it happened, did he think that he might be killed before he might sleep again? Did it happen quickly or did he have time to lie there and think how rotten it all was? Was it a hand grenade, a shelling, a bullet, a knife? What put Tinsley around my neck...