Word: knifing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While wrestling with his moral crisis, Newman gets to act all kinds of things: tough, rebellious, weary, angry, loving, even, for a couple of fine moments, absolutely crazy. That is when he has to disarm a psycho who is threatening a crowd with a knife. Newman turns his hat around, pulls faces and starts mumbling wildly to himself, so startling the lunatic that he docilely hands over his weapon...
...elder Despos had come to Fort Wayne after World War II to open a tailor's shop, and his son started in the trade sweeping the floor after school. "It was a while before my father handed me a knife and even allowed me to open seams," he recalls. Although he always wanted to run his own business, he and his father clashed. Thus after studying business administration at the University of Indiana, Despos became a stockbroker. But a few years later he was back helping his father in the afternoons after the market closed. Eventually he accumulated...
...motion and commotion; for Hill Street is part of a nameless inner city, and the Blues are the men and women of the local police precinct. Each episode traces a day in the life of the precinct, as the Blues try to defuse street crime, play social worker at knife point, slip out of an octopus stranglehold of red tape, keep their private lives from ending in a singles bar or the divorce court...
Police would not confirm whether Sutcliffe confessed to any of the deaths. Reports circulated that they had found incriminating evidence after his arrest: a hammer and knife, similar to the Ripper's grisly tools, lying where Sutcliffe's car had been parked. At a press conference, West Yorkshire Chief Constable Ronald Gregory gave every indication that the Ripper and Sutcliffe were...
That longstanding mutual admiration is a prime reason why the President-elect last week named Caspar Willard Weinberger, 63, to be Secretary of Defense. To some officials in Washington, "Cap the Knife" seemed an odd choice. The expenditure-cutting ax he wielded so zestfully first for Reagan in California and then for Nixon in Washington may gather some dust at the Pentagon, where Reagan plans a huge military buildup. Moreover, Weinberger's firsthand knowledge of weapons and military strategy apparently is confined to whatever he picked up poring over Defense Department budgets eight to ten years ago; his current...