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...BRUTALIZATION OF Richard and Clarisse is no less disturbing. Teddy totally exposes Richard's selfish cowardice, intimidating him, wounding him with a pistol shot, and then molesting and threatening to rape his wife. Richard cannot bring himself to do anything but fume. When Clarisse finally explodes in rage at Teddy after his rape threat and demands that Richard stop him, Richard can only mutter that he might do something if she were raped. Their bond is shattered by the end of the play, as Clarisse makes it clear that she will be free of Richard's now groundless domination...
...bidding French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing farewell before he too departed for a new assignment. After an eight-hour vigil, the Palestinian was persuaded to release his hostages and surrender. As he was being led away from the embassy by police, an Iraqi security agent opened pointblank pistol fire at him. The Palestinian was hit in the thigh, and one of his French escorts was killed. In the return fire, an Iraqi security man was fatally wounded. Three Iraqis were arrested...
Mark Furman, 28, and his wife Claudia, 24, were driving from Milwaukee to Chicago when their car was bumped from behind by a Cadillac carrying four passengers. Two of them jumped from the Caddie, shot and killed Mark, then pistol-whipped Claudia and shot her in the right arm. More and more, say authorities, motorists are attacking one another with fists, knives, guns-or with the car itself-after minor accidents or quarrels over right...
...years in prison for their part in the Liuzzo killing. They too wanted to switch the subject, to the Liuzzo shooting. For the first time, they claimed that Rowe killed the woman. Rowe has admitted being present at the murder, but insists that he only pretended to shoot a pistol at her, while Wil kins fired the fatal shot. But Wilkins and Thomas waited for twelve years before giving their account to police, and some officers believe they are only trying to get even with Rowe for testifying against them at their trial...
...incessantly frustrated emotions in a barren provincial outpost of non-civilization, this particular cast stirs up only a tempest in a samovar. Vanya should be compacted of anguish; Hutt is merely consumed by pique. When he shoots at Serebriakov and misses him twice, one hears only the toy pistol retort of a toyed-with emotion...