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Once he has been locked up, a homicidal maniac has limited opportunities. He can spend the rest of his life in prison, or he can be put to death by the state. But Willie Bosket Jr. is not your everyday homicidal maniac. A self- described "monster," he is intelligent, well read and sophisticated. At least three books are being planned to memorialize his life story. He has at his disposal a "spokeswoman" to handle inquires from the media and Hollywood. He is only 26 years old, and in the view of many people he is the best possible argument...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Won't Kill, I'll Just Maim | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

...paranoid lobby, a political anachronism, is in its rigid ideological belief that any restriction on the private ownership of any kind of hand-held gun leads inexorably to total abolition of all gun ownership -- that, if today the U.S. Government takes the Kalashnikov from the hands of the maniac on the school playground, it will be coming for my Winchester pump tomorrow. There is no evidence for this absurd belief, but it remains an article of faith. And it does so because the faith is bad faith: the stand the N.R.A. takes is only nominally on behalf of recreational hunters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The N.R.A. in A Hunter's Sights | 4/3/1989 | See Source »

...finally, if you're in that kind of hockey maniac mode this weekend and think that four ECAC games at Boston Garden are not enough, there's always the opportunity to watch the best high school teams in the area battle for the state titles...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Silence in Dallas and Madness in March | 3/9/1989 | See Source »

...displayed amazing endurance," Schwarz said. "She was out there tackling like a maniac...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue jr., | Title: Women Ruggers Plunder UNH, 13-6 | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

Freddy Krueger is America' s favorite homicidal maniac, and his Nightmare on Elm Street 4 is a late- summer box- office slash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page: Sep. 5, 1988 | 9/5/1988 | See Source »

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