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Verneuil is unable to decide what is important in the film, and he communicates his confusion. There are many tantalizing themes in the movie, but none are developed. The night caller, for example, is not just any homicidal maniac: he has class. He calls himself "Minos" after the character in The Divine Comedy who metes out punishments to sinners entering hell. He makes creepy nocturnal phone calls to his prospective victims, then goes to their apartments posing as a police investigator and strangles them. He teases the police by sending them a notice of each murder, with a picture...
Until the twin attempts on Ford, some analysts argued that only certain kinds of Presidents attracted assassins, unlocking the combination of mental imbalances that turns a misfit into a maniac. Leaders who were charismatic and activist like the Kennedy brothers, the Roosevelts, Jackson and Lincoln. And it is notable?and paradoxical?that there were no attempts on the lives of Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, who were not well-liked as Presidents and came to arouse venomous passions in large parts of the population. Chicago Psychiatrist David Rothstein thinks that perhaps likable Presidents may be more vulnerable to attack, since...
...there's still the possibility that she'll put off business school and go into training in the fall. "But I'll tell you one thing," she says with a bitter smile, "I like to do things well. And if I do go back, I'll be a real maniac...
Yesterday. The Beatles are back. Or rather, their collective ghost will be resurrected at a three-day convention of Beatle-maniacs starting today at the Bradford Hotel, 275 Tremont St. in Boston. The whole thing is being put together by a 27-year-old full-time Beatle-maniac named Joe Pope, who spends the year editing a magazine called Strawberry Fields, roaming all over the country searching for Beatle memorabilia, and revving up for the annual convention. A few years ago, Pope had the idea of giving a party for a few of his friends who were heavily into...
...radio towers are." Bennett's success is not entirely the result of his wily stunts, of course. He haunts record stores and pop concerts, and studiously keeps one hip ahead of ever-changing adolescent argot. He is also, as one client station's program manager notes, a "maniac" about listening to his listeners. At Bennett's current home tower at Minneapolis station KDWB, for instance, he has installed 12 telephone lines on which two staffers take up to 5,000 calls a day. Bennett contends that he has turned more than a score of obscure songs into...