Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dressed up in a circle pin, a pearl necklace, an orchid and an ageless smile, Anna Mary Robertson (Grandma) Moses handled a silver knife with the art that comes from practice. She was cutting birthday cake...
...Senate-House conference committee assigned to work out differences between Senate and House versions of the Labor Reform Act of 1959. A reporter asked Kennedy how labor unions would feel about the final bill just agreed on, and Goldwater playfully answered for him by shoving an imaginary labor knife into Kennedy's back. Kennedy laughed, turned serious. "Compromises are never happy experiences," he said. "I think it's the best bill we can get-and get a bill...
This time there were at least 13 of them, all Puerto Rican. and led by a kid in a Dracula-like costume-nurse's cape, buckled shoes. He carried a knife. Another leader held an umbrella. With a splintering crash, one of the toughs smashed a Clinton boy with a bottle. Another shouted: "No gringos leave the park!" Wildly, the Clinton kids ran for an exit, but the gang caught up with most of them. Anthony Krzesinski, 16, fell wounded in the chest and groin. Bobby Young, 16, stabbed in the back, dropped to the ground. Five other boys...
...Bronx, the cops found the two leaders rummaging for food in a garbage can. The knife-wielding Cape Man was a soft-faced tough named Salvador Agron. just turned 16. His mother and stepfather, a part-time Pentecostal minister of a storefront church, had sent the boy to live in, Harlem with a 17-year-old married sister whose husband had deserted her. Young Agron had been in scrapes with the police before. Umbrella Man was a surly 17-year-old named Antonio Hernandez, whose stepmother and father (a hotel worker) live in a filthy Harlem flat. He had left...
Just what this Gothic hoedown signifies is anybody's guess. Best bet is that Bergman intends it as a kind of spiritual autobiography, identifies himself both with the masked magician and the drunken actor, who dies with his battered top hat on, raving: "I always longed for a knife to free me ... Then what we call the spirit would rise up from the meaningless carcass." Cinemagician Bergman seems to see both men as despairing artists whose creative imaginations doom them to social obloquy and the distrust and disdain of hardheaded authority. What scant optimism there is in this fatalistic...