Word: murder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HAPPENED IN BOSTON? by Russell H. Greenan. Witless German art experts, villainous Peruvian generals, paranoiac harpies, spying pigeons, nosy janitors and struggling artists are only part of the fantastic story that leads a deranged narrator and master painter into forgery, murder and an attempt to kill...
...event can hardly explain why the blatant lawlessness that has always terrorized slum dwellers should spill out into the rest of Washington. Yet, in the disorders that shook Washington after the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. last April, ghetto rioters and looters learned that downtown stores and prosperous neighborhoods can be as vulnerable as their own. For many citizens, that legacy is far more troubling than all the rhetoric and social studies with which official Washington has documented the spread of crime...
...really bad war (I don't mean a remote war, I mean a home-threat war) people start doing things they had said were impossible. I think there's going to be a world crisis quite soon: we must hope it won't take the from of mutual murder all 'round the planet, but there's going to be a crisis...
...assume there is a right to be secure in person and property," Clark said. "But what security is there in the getto?" While about 14 per cent of America's people are black, Clark said, some 62 per cent of murder victims and 64 per cent of assault victims are black...
...miseries, including college musicals, graduate clubs, the New York Police Department, love, marriage and funerals. These grotesqueries are achieved with a satiric style that matches the droll gazelles of Stewart's imagination. However, far from merely a formless pastiche of perverse events, Stewart has actually created an absurd murder mystery with a strong narrative structure. The clues, leading back to a 20-year-old college musical production and a war refugee organization, are pursued by two bumbling characters who keep the story full of suspense right up to the final flourish of axes...