Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...murder he said never happened. Then, last month, came the movie Breakout, in which Charles Bronson whisks framed Murderer Robert Duvall out of a Mexican prison in, yes, a helicopter. Finally, last week, a man hired a helicopter at Mettetal Airport in Plymouth, Mich., and, once aloft, pulled a knife and ordered Pilot Richard Jackson to fly to the State Prison of Southern Michigan in Jackson. The pilot set down within the walls and took aboard Inmate Dale Otto Remling, 46, who was serving six to ten years for larceny. The pickup took five seconds, only half the time Bronson...
...pass to attend a welding class, Taylor talked his way into a Detroit woman's home, then raped and robbed her. By the next year, out on another pass, he threatened a rooming-house manager and her daughter with an 18-inch butcher knife. He was not put on trial in either incident; instead he was sent back to Ionia. In 1972, Taylor was released from the Michigan Center for Forensic Psychiatry in Ypsilanti. Reason: under Michigan law, a person acquitted of a crime by reason of insanity cannot be kept indefinitely in a mental institution; he must...
...federated Malay States for donkeys' years, as one has, one learns that "stengah" means a small whisky and water, nothing more, nothing less. Any chappie askin' for a "gin stengah" at the Yellow Dog in K.L. would be hooted off the verandah before you could say knife...
...pilots the advertising blimp that floats (aha!) above every important football contest. To get all the plastic explosive he needs, Lander applies to the Palestinians, an alarming people indeed: "Najeer ... wore a hood of shadow. His hands were in the light and they toyed with a black commando knife ... 'Do it, Dahlia. Kill as many...
...alternative: to try to become an American artist. This again is a difficult enterprise, since if the point is to make American movies many Americans would seem far better equipped to do this than Czech emigres. Certainly, Roman Polansky has proved the contrary; having started with the very Polish Knife in the Water, he has managed to become one of the best Hollywood directors with Chinatown. For most directors some kind of balance between the two alternatives has to be found. Milos Forman may perhaps come close to achieving this with his new One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest...