Word: murder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...against a windshield. When her lips crack open into a wide, diagonal smile, some Mae West line seems ready to emerge. "Come up and see me sometime." And Frank Keller (Al Pacino), a good cop with no life, does just that. Though Helen is a suspect in the grisly murder case he is investigating, he can't wait to get to her. The feeling must be mutual: before making love to Frank, she strips off her red jacket with the urgency of a lifeguard en route to a rescue. They fight viciously, then lurch into a mad pash. She solders...
BLACK RAIN. Michael Douglas glowers through this formulaic cop drama set in Japan. Director Ridley Scott can make anything -- a nightclub, a chase, a murder -- look sexy. But here he wastes his time -- and ours...
...book, published by Harper & Row this month, confirms long-circulated reports of King's philandering. According to Abernathy, on the night before the murder of King on April 4, 1968, he consorted with one woman in a private Memphis home, with a second -- a woman legislator from Kentucky -- in his motel, and then got into an early-morning fight with yet a third woman who had been looking for him during the night. King "knocked her across the bed," Abernathy writes...
...would Abernathy add an unsavory note to the memory of King's murder? He complains that King's other aides saw him as "no more than an appendage to Martin," so he may have wished to underscore his leading role in SCLC. His declared purpose, however, was "to render justice to the dead without causing too much unnecessary pain to the living...
...arrests were prompted in part by the murder last August of Roman Catholic Loughlin Maginn, 29. The appearance of his name on a leaked list obtained by the Ulster Freedom Fighters is believed to have led to his death. Last month two U.D.R. men were charged with Maginn's murder...