Word: knifing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Thomas Arthur Vallee and three or four other men whose identities are uncertain. Their plan to kill the President had to be abandoned when Vallee, a lithographer, was picked up by Chicago police on a minor traffic violation on the day of the game. After spotting a hunting knife on the front seat of his car, the cops looked further and found a rifle. Vallee was put on probation for concealing a weapon; for the traffic violation he drew a $5 fine, which was suspended. He has since disappeared, as has the photograph that should be attached to his arrest...
...wool cap and squishy boots, hoping for a lucky shot. Venery was as ritualized as the catechism. A clumsy hunter was publicly chastised by "blading," a ceremony in which he was forced to lie down across a dead stag and receive three swats from the flat of a broad knife. All the hard work was done by the peasants, who erected the high cloth barriers or rope nets into which bear or deer were driven. At dawn, the whole party set off, proceeding according to rank in carriages drawn by four or six horses. Beaters drove the game into...
...take it a little bit at a time, then you can come away with some moments that will stay with you a long time. Herbert's characters are fascinating, because they shimmer with the incomprehensibility of every human being, elevated to a higher level: St. Alia of the Knife, the Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam, Scytale the Face Dancer-each moves in the story with almost mythic import...
...says Mrs. Shriver, 44. The first film of the day is a Japanese import, The Daydream, a collage of sensual sounds and sadomasochistic fury. On the screen, a man hangs a girl from the ceiling by ropes, then cuts off her clothing with a knife. "I'm either out of touch with Oriental culture," says Mrs. Shriver, wife of an oil-company executive, "or there's something here that escapes me." In another scene, the man strokes the girl's private parts. Both are naked except for masks. "I can't tell what they...
...lunchtime approaches and the ladies watch a man mutilate another man with a knife, the board's pretty administrative assistant enters the screening room. "Don't look, Susan," Mrs. Shriver warns, and Susan rushes out. The women send out for sandwiches and coffee, then sit grimly munching in the dark, eyes on the screen...