Word: murders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...four months, the man mostly in the shadows at the Dr. X murder trial in Hackensack, N.J., has been the 51-year-old defendant himself, Mario Jascalevich. The Argentine-born physician was accused of killing five hospital patients in 1965 and 1966 by injecting them with lethal doses of curare, a muscle relaxant. His motive, the prosecution speculated, was to discredit other doctors who were challenging his authority as the hospital's chief surgeon...
Despair is quite an undertaking for a film artist. Herman Hermann is so disatisfied with messy, imperfect reality that he concocts a work of art--the perfect murder--and attempts to immortalize it in the ordered, finite world of a novel he writes. Stoppard's great innovation is that he sees the story not from its uniquely literary angle, but from its general artistic one: Is not cinema an art form, too? Can't movies also be perfectly ordered? And can't movie director, if he chooses, be as selective about the details he presents to the viewer...
...many of the journalists, civil libertarians and other citizens who have rallied to the cause of jailed New York Times Reporter Myron Farber have ever heard of Joe Pennington. But Pennington is facing a 60-day jail term for refusing to reveal his source in a murder case he covered last year for Wichita, Kans.' KAKE-TV-the same principled stand that put Farber behind bars...
After spending 40 days in jail for refusing to turn over his notes to the court in the Jascalevich murder trial, Farber was freed when the case went to jury because his notes were no longer needed for the trial...
Friday, October 27: Halloween Party, with costumes. Horror movie, "Murder at the Rue Morgue." White Hall...