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...made and not very personal. Their thematic preoccupations-guilt or accusation of guilt, sexual re??rsesion, voyeurism-are roughly those of his later films, but they never take over these films. One sees a dreary succession of slickly put together films relieved by such brilliant sequences as the kitchen-knife killing in Sabota?e, and by that minor romantic masterpiece The Lodger...
...have killed 12 men-not including Mexicans. He had a big ranch on the Nueces River in Texas, and he used to shoot people who came onto his property. Ben Thompson, at the age of 13, deliberately shot a playmate. He later killed a Frenchman in a New Orleans knife duel. And when in the Confederate Army, he killed several men in his company. He killed someone in Texas, and went to jail for two years. He became a hired gunfighter, and was killed along with King Fisher by unknown assassins in Jack Harris's Vaudeville Theatre. Bat Masterson wrote...
...black in a white society: but its immediate cause is the killing of an unarmed black teenager by an Irish-American policeman. The policeman, cited on two separate occasions for bravery, says the youth attacked him with a penknife. He pumped five bullets into the teenager's chest. No knife is ever found. Browning (and black America) recognizes the killing for what it is: cold-blooded murder. His faith in the country completely shattered, he arranges through the Mafia a contract for the policeman's death...
...idea for the course came last spring from 50 girls in Mabel Daniels Hall, who petitioned Miss Paget for instruction in self-defense. "We felt that Cliffies should be offered instruction in what to do when someone snatches a pocketbook, grabs your wrist, or pulls a knife on you," said Marilyn De Vries, author of the petition. Students at the Radeliffe Graduate Center also asked for a cause in self-defense...
...Skinner, 27, once had 22 notches on his knife handle for all of the "cuts" he had inflicted on enemies by the time he was a 14-year-old gang leader of the Harlem Lords. Now an ordained minister of the National Baptist Convention, the 215-lb., gravel-voiced preacher traces his vocation to an intense conversion experience-when he accidentally heard a radio gospel broadcast while planning a gang rumble. Skinner thinks evangelical churches must lead the fight for social justice because it "takes regeneration from Jesus Christ to change society...