Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...governor's council sitting as a pardons board. He could give no motive for the double killing beyond the fact that the baby sitter, Lynn Ann Smith, had screamed when she saw the bayonet in his hand. As he told it: "She opened the door, and the knife was in my hand, and she screamed. I was pushed from behind, or catapulted, but nobody was there." Asked whether he wanted his sentence commuted to life imprisonment, Chapin muttered: "Just as soon go, just as soon go." The council voted, 6-3, to let him go to the chair...
...Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera last week, she made the Puccini heroine a creature of fierce temperament; hers was a believable embodiment of a jealous beauty who was willing to make the supreme sacrifice for her lover, and who carves up a would-be seducer with a fruit knife. In addition to her flawless acting, Callas was in full command of her remarkable voice-never luscious, but potent as TNT. She might have been good under any circumstances, but playing opposite a tangibly evil George London as Scarpia and supported by an orchestra made almost superhuman by Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos...
...aria, Vissi d'Arte, on her knees just in time to receive the ovation that greeted it. Meanwhile, Mitropoulos, silhouetted against the stage lights, was kneading, soothing, irritating, roiling his orchestra, bouncing around in the climaxes like a marionette on a string. With a start, Callas took the knife from the table, furiously plunged it into Scarpia's chest, then, her head waggling insanely, unable to look directly at the corpse, she placed the candles at his shoulders and made her getaway...
...Izabella Street grenades thrown from windows scattered a squad of marching Russian infantry. A few minutes later tanks and artillery came rolling down the street, shot up the whole neighborhood. In one house the Russians found the 13-year-old son of the porter with an open clasp knife in his hand. They smashed his head with rifle butts...
...suddenly estranged husband of British Cinemonroe Diana Dors, onetime Pugilist Dennis Hamilton, set a record for terse explanations of marital collapses. Said he informatively: "It is a matter which concerns only Diana, Mr. Rod (The Big Knife) Steiger and myself...