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...years, Charles Burns' atmospheric magnum opus of teenage sex and death has finally been collected as a hardcover book, creating the year's best graphic novel. Set in the 1970s, Black Hole uses the tropes of that decade's best horror movies -- bell-bottoms, sex, monsters, drug use and murder -- and twists them in unexpected ways to explore psychology, symbolism and the weirdness of growing up. A sexually transmitted disease called "the bug" mutates its teenage victims in creepy, disfiguring ways, giving one an extra mouth, and another a little tail. But rather than making his protagonists fall in love...
...French electroboys Air, and not one, but two splinter-groups from one-album wonders the Unicorns, to name a few.Two more poppy Frenchmen, Octet, steal the show by recasting bubblegum gem “Girl” as a melodramatic aria, sung at the climax of a new-age murder opera. They cut out all the lead vocals of the chorus, thus negating the longstanding debate over whether our hero is saying “sun-eyed” or “cyanide.” This leaves only the eerily manufactured choir...
...urging kids to stay out of gangs, and he participated in anti-violence mentoring programs via telephone. Newark city officials also credited Williams for helping to broker a peace between the rival gangs the Crips and the Bloods, which helped lead to a drop in Newark’s murder rate. The killings Williams committed and the crimes his founding of the Crips caused are tragic and horrific. But the work Williams did in prison to help stem gang violence is laudable. Williams could have continued that work if his sentence had been commuted to life without parole. Instead, California...
...five men who plotted the 1948 assassination of Indian independence hero Mohandas Gandhi; in Pune, India. Godse served 16 years in prison for his role in the conspiracy; his brother Nathuram, who shot Gandhi, was executed in 1949. In his old age Godse showed no remorse for the murder of the pacifist leader, whom he believed had betrayed India by encouraging Hindus to coexist peacefully with Pakistan. Gandhi "had to be eliminated to save the country from further damage," Godse told the Hindustan Times...
...freelance spy flew off the rails in 1982, when he was lured out of Libya in a sting operation conducted by U.S. marshals. He then was convicted in a series of sensational trials for gunrunning, selling 20 tons of C-4 plastic explosives to Libya and conspiring to murder two of his prosecutors. After that, Wilson was sentenced to 52 years' hard time in maximum-security prisons...