Word: knifes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Changeling is not a tame play--by the end of this Jacobean tragedy, only half the cast is left, the rest done in by knife, pistol or suicide. If your taste for violence isn't jaded by the glut on TV. you may find the 17th-century's approach more tasteful. The Leverett House production is fast-moving, and the actors fill it with moments of genuine horror and occasional humor as well. The Changeling is playing at the Leverett Theater tonight, Friday and Saturday (April 27, 28, and 29) at 8 p.m., with a midnight show on the 28th...
...native of Birmingham, Harris, 32, seems an improbable choice as a hero. In 1974 he was serving five consecutive life sentences for robbery and rape.Then, during a riot at Fountain Correctional Center at Atmore, Ala., Harris killed a white guard by stabbing him 27 times with a homemade knife. At his 1975 trial, Harris was sentenced to death under a rarely used 1864 Alabama statute that mandates execution of a defendant found guilty of first-degree murder while serving a life sentence. Harris' lawyer has stated that the trial prosecutor would not have asked for the death penalty...
...most cutting inventions?or adaptations?is the urban guerrilla seen as Mickey Mouse. In Six Terrorists, 1971, a file of them strut across the page, in aviator jackets and miniskirts, equipped with flick knife and carbine: young bourgeois clones of affectless violence, Black Shirt, S.L.A. or Brigata Rossa. It is an uncannily predictive drawing. "The Mickey Mouse face," Steinberg remarks, "is sexless, neither black nor white, without character or age: for me it represents the junk-food people, the spoilt young ones who have all their experiences, inferior as they are, handed to them on a plate." An encyclopedic disgust...
...Kans. He had good reason: his father, Vernon, 42, an insurance salesman, often beat Gregory with belts, garden hoses and golf clubs. His mother, Barbara, 37, was also strict and harsh. Some two months after his departure, on the night of July 24, 1975, Gregory returned home-with a knife and an ax. He killed his parents and stuffed their bodies into their bedroom closet. Last week Shaddy was a free man. And soon, maybe, a richer man. Gregory and his brother, Scott, will split their parents' estate, which is estimated to be upwards...
When the baron refused to sign a ransom note, the kidnapers lopped off a piece of the little finger of his left hand-using an ordinary kitchen knife without benefit of anesthetic-and sent it to his family as grisly proof of identity. Gang members provided some antiseptic and a bandage to stop the bleeding. They also warned Empain that unless he cooperated with them they would cut off another finger for each day the ransom went unpaid...