Word: murders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...named Joe, everybody around Chicago felt pretty good. Joe's last name was Majczek. Not all Chicagoans knew how to pronounce it (it rhymes with paycheck), but they all knew his story. Joe had had a tough time. He had spent twelve years in prison for a murder which he had not committed. His mother had scrubbed floors to get the money to help clear him. When he was pardoned (TIME, Aug. 27, 1945), curly-haired, good-looking Joe Majczek became the hero of every Pole in town...
...days later, the apprentice's sweater is found washed up on the beach. The townspeople, surex that Grimes has committed another murder, head offstage on a new hunt, chanting now near, now far: "Peter Gri-imes ... Peter Gri-mes." As Peter appears on stage, clearly out of his mind, the orchestra is silent; the only sound to be heard is an eerie foghorn. His friend Balstrode warns him to "sail out . . . then sink the boat," before the mob finds him, and Peter Grimes obeys...
...life Gandhi found not only the Moslem leader, but many of his own Hindus, opposing attempts at reconciliation. Orthodox Hindus resented his inroads on Hindu customs which Gandhi considered brutal, and therefore indefensible: untouchability, suttee (widow suicide), child marriages. Hindu and Sikh refugees from Moslem hate and murder, pouring into Delhi and other Indian cities, clamored for revenge. The militant Hindu organization Mahasabha (Great Society), to which Gandhi's assassin belonged, worked to make Indiaa purely Hindu state. Patel gave some encouragement to the extremists, which may partly explain why, at Gandhi's funeral, his head was bowed...
Huxley, beginning to breathe hard, offered the Macbeth tag, Sleep No More. When U-I still wasn't satisfied, he gave up. Then the studio went to work on the problem. How about The Unguarded Heart? Huxley winced. How about Art of Murder? Huxley shuddered. Or Black Velvet? Huxley beat his temples. Well, then: Vengeance? Or Woman of Vengeance? Huxley's wife tried to calm him down. All right, A Woman's Vengeance...
...leader of the gold-hunting party (Huston), whom the others call "the old-timer," is an almost superhuman character. He keeps the party together as long as he can, and it is only when his wisdom loses its effect on the nuerotic boy-man Dobbs (Bogart), that there is murder and madness. The events, until the gold dust is lost by a seeming accident, have an inevitability that comes from the characters of the three men. Tim Holt plays the third, a straight role that bears the small romantic element of the plot. Only in his part...