Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also cite a study made by University of Pennsylvania Sociologist Marvin E. Wolfgang of 588 criminal homicides committed in Philadelphia over a four-year period. He concluded that, given "sufficient motivation or provocation," it makes no difference whether a gun is handy?if not, the offender "would use a knife to stab or fists to beat his victim to death." But Wolfgang has since modified that view. As Detroit Police Commissioner Ray Girardin puts it: "When people have guns, they use them. A wife gets mad at her husband, and instead of throwing a dish she grabs...
...Last October, he was driving in Detroit with two prostitutes-one white, one black. He says they jumped into his car before he could stop them; they say he invited them. Whatever the case, all occupants of the car admit that a fight ensued. Senak pulled a knife, and both girls ended up badly cut. They reported the incident to the police but refused to press charges. "The reason I got in trouble all over again," Senak told Hersey, "was because I was overzealous. It was my instinct of a police officer-though I was suspended...
...Rosemary's Baby, Ira Levin's best-selling chiller about the powers of darkness at work in a Manhattan apartment building. Now Old Nick, along with a covey of attendant diabolists, is making Rosemary's life miserable in a film version by Polish Director Roman Polanski (Knife in the Water, Repulsion). Even readers of the book (2,300,000 copies) who know how Baby comes out are in for a pleasant surprise: the very real acting ability of Mia Farrow...
...Roxbury smacks a little too much of white paternalism," she says now. "And if the blacks don't want me, I guess that's O.K. But seeing so many white people who just don't care is also frustrating?and it's inexcusable." She recalls helping break up a knife fight between two Negro girls in Hartford one day, partying at Belle Haven the next. "When two worlds are as far apart as the slums of Hartford and the Connecticut suburbs," she says, "something is wrong...
...Savage Seven begins with a bare-chested Indian looming in the foreground, knife in hand. Another brave leaps forward and they begin to grapple to the death. Then comes an offscreen voice, "Will you guys quit screwing around?" The time is the present, and the Indians are a bunch of tribesmen trapped in a California poverty pocket. From out of the hills comes the Enemy, on wheels-and suddenly the ignoble savages find themselves in a stereotypical motorcycle picture...