Word: murder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WEARING spectacles of the wrong prescription usually results in a headache. Likewise, the near-sighted squint with which In Cold Blood inspects its subject matter only strains the viewer. With meticulous regard for detail the film attempts to relate the facts surrounding the murder of the Clutter family by Perry Smith and Richard Hickock. Drawing from Truman Capote's research, the film version of his book reproduces the chilling aspects of this so-called "senseless" crime--the paradoxical motives of the killers, the inability of social conventions to adequately explain the atrocity, and the irony by which the state executes...
...fact that prompted some Kennedyites to scorn him as a Judas. Ironically, other liberals had branded him a "Judas rat" only a few years earlier when he switched from Stevenson to J.F.K. But, as Arthur Schlesinger points out, there would have been no government at all after Kennedy's murder had men like Galbraith not reacted as they...
Ever since a U.S. Supreme Court decision (TIME cover, April 29, 1966) threw out Danny Escobedo's murder confession because he was denied his right to counsel, Escobedo has been in and out of court on charges of burglary, possession of weapons and drugs. None of them stuck, partly because his lawyer argued that ruffled Illinois and U.S. authorities were unfairly picking on Danny in order to get revenge. His lawyer made the same plea last week as he defended Escobedo against charges of being involved in the possession and sale of 59 Ibs. of heroin. This time...
...almost any city." But that was never very much in doubt, and it hardly represents a victory-"not when one considers the staggering Communist losses, not when they failed to capture and hold any major installation or locality, not when one takes into consideration such atrocities as the savage murder of the wives and children of South Vietnamese officers. If this sort of thing adds up to victory, Hanoi can have...
...having the portrait of his young love come to life in the person of her daughter. Seeing the elder and the younger woman side by side does indeed shock the pseudo Henry-to the point of stabbing his old love rival to death. By this sudden act of murder, the Emperor loses his freedom and is imprisoned in the illusions and fantasies of which he was previously the master...