Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...KNIFE (PBS, July 20, 9 p.m. on most stations). An unhappy movie star (Peter Gallagher) struggles against the manipulations of a Machiavellian studio boss in Clifford Odets' sharp-edged 1949 drama about Hollywood...
...resting one hand menacingy on his gun. Frisking the hoboes, the lawman squinted in disbelief: their driver's licenses bore upscale California addresses in West Los Angeles, Marin County and Palm Springs. "Beverly Glen Boulevard?" the policeman demanded of one robust tramp wearing suspenders and carrying a Swiss army knife. "What is this...
...become seriously depressed for months. They undergo mercurial mood swings, lose their appetite and go sleepless for nights on end. Plagued by thoughts of ; suicide or fantasies of killing their baby by dropping it down the stairs, burying it in the backyard or cutting it up with a kitchen knife. "These are invasive, terrifying ideas that can drive them crazy," says Psychiatrist Ricardo Fernandez, of Princeton, N.J. "A lot of women have a tremendous amount of guilt and shame because of these thoughts...
Teachers expect certain challenges when they sign on in New York City schools, but contending with knife-wielding assailants is not among them. A teacher in the Bronx was stabbed more than a dozen times by a mugger in an elementary school bathroom last month; another was savagely beaten with a bat after confronting a playground intruder; a third was badly injured by a powerful firecracker thrown into her classroom; a fourth was slugged by a student who objected to being asked to put out his cigarette...
Outside, Josh is in his 30s; inside, he is still a sheltered child, whose most bruising experience has been dueling with some electronic monster in a video game. Not recognizing the boy in the man, his frightened mother uses a butcher knife to evict him from their home in suburban New Jersey. It is left to Josh's more worldly friend Billy (Jared Rushton) to escort him across the Hudson to Manhattan and to help him find a job as a computer operator in a giant toy company...