Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gratuitous shock seems to be Malle sporadically rebelling against the Pollyanna optimism of his genre, the happy go-lucky western. His compulsion to zoom in on open wounds, his close-ups of pock-marked faces, his pointless scrutiny of a knife-thrower accidentally wounding his apprentice: these all seem as far from the film's context as the London slums that socially-conscious Tony Richardson muscled into Tom Jones...
...phone calls from an unidentified man. Meanwhile, Mossler's neighbors heard him scream, "Don't! Don't do this to me!" and saw a man hurtle away in a white car. When Candy got home, her "dear husband" was dead of a crushed skull and 39 knife wounds...
...opening statement, Lawyer Foreman depicted Mossler as such a "pirate" tycoon and depraved homosexual that "many times" more than 39 enemies would have been glad to take turns with the knife. But he did little to support the allegations. He had no need to. Arrested in Houston, Powers had been held incommunicado for several days by Texas Rangers. As a result, his only statement, which might have helped to incriminate him, was inadmissible at the Miami trial; the prosecution had to rely on indirect evidence. Witnesses placed Powers aboard a Miami-bound jet the afternoon of the murder...
...aunt, and hitting Tuong in the shoulder. Unable to draw his pistol, Tuong ran. A second burst cut him down in mid-courtyard. As so often happens in the terrorist war, the two assassins escaped in the confusion. In angry frustration, Tuong's nephew seized a long knife, raced next door and stabbed to death the man who had taken the assassins into his house overnight...
This morning is your very last chance to knife, to eulogize, to blast, to reflect--to put in your two cents or plug nickels about Harvard edit cation in the Fall of 1965. Polls will be collected today...