Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drunken quarrel flared in the shabby Newark apartment when Aaron R. Rudesel suddenly began berating his girl friend, Dollie Fair. After Aaron warmed up, he hit Dollie in the mouth. She brandished a knife; he cut her with another. A third member of the party, named John B. Lynn, jumped up blearily and cried, "Man, you shouldn't cut your woman like that." As the men grappled, Dollie fled. In the melee, Rudesel was stabbed, and then Lynn took...
...have made an experiment," wrote a French infantry sergeant from the trenches of World War I. "Two days ago I pinched from an enemy a Mauser rifle. Its unwieldy shape swamped me with a powerful image of brutality. I broke the butt off, and with my knife I carved a gentler order of feeling, a mother and child." A few days later, on the afternoon of June 5, 1915, an other German weapon put a bullet through the Frenchman's head. Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, not yet 24, was dead...
Made in 1932 during the Depression, the film concerns the life of the overly rich. Into the poshsetting Lubitsch injects a con man par excellence, far smoother than the bungling James Bond, with overtones of the earthy Mack the Knife. A zany situation comedy follows, set on a foundation of social pretense. Lubitsch pours on the humor, doubling joke upon joke, until his audience splits with laughter. Thirty years later it is just a s effective...
...Minor, Terry-Thomas. Even without the hyphen, the actor's face would probably have made his name familiar the world over. Its features are a bounderish British blend of sad sack and pukka sahib: busby brows that shoot up in startled innocence or beetle down with Mac the Knife malevolence; lugubrious eyes rocketing around like apoplectic billiard balls; a Scotch-sodden thatch of mustache, and, of course, those two front teeth, gaping wide as Becher's Brook. Wherever he takes a stroll, from Soho to Sunset Boulevard, Terry-Thomas is stopped by little old ladies...
...their way to abide by the rules, while they wait for clarification from the court. In Manhattan, for example, police have been under heavy pressure for months to solve the grisly murders of two women who were stabbed to death in self-service elevators with a total of 52 knife thrusts. Last week the police arrested Charles E. Wright, 21, a Columbia University kitchen helper. But in sharp contrast to previous cases, the cops made no effort to trumpet their triumph. They refused to say whether Suspect Wright confessed, or even whether he has a police record...