Word: psychopathic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...killer, it turns out, is an impotent psychopath who murders women because he can't bring himself to kill his unfaithful wife. But his wife loves him, as does his mother, and the two women compete fiercely to protect him, making it extremely complicated for Maigret...
...lurid cinemythology of the '30s, Capone was glorified by Paul Muni (Scarface), Edward G. Robinson (Little Caesar) and James Cagney (Public Enemy) as a snap-brim Satan. In the sober retrospect of the '503, he is reduced by Rod Steiger to a mere whitecollar, clean-desk psychopath-a sort of organization maniac...
...wrong with the syndicate? Two or three of us get together on some deal and everybody says it's a bad thing. But those businessmen do it all the time and nobody squawks"), the back of his hand for the draft board that rated him a constitutional psychopath in 1943: "Who wouldn't pretend he was nuts to stay out of the Army? I told them I steal for a living. They thought I was crazy but I wasn't. I was telling them the "truth...
...criminals. But in the International Zone of his North African vacation spot he becomes enveloped in evil so dense and tense that it seems part of the town's climate. There is, first of all, Marcovicz, a crippled German Jew whose mind seethes with injustice; he is a psychopath who has killed and is ready soon to kill again. Through him Dr. Chance meets an international crowd of idlers, gangsters, sex deviates and refugees from humanity who are to make his eight-day stay a nightmare...
...five years ago-Tonight's Jack Paar was conquering the West Coast with some of the most wildly funny shows of his career. Paar and guests (among them: Bob Hope, Groucho Marx, Hans Conreid) splashed inspired nonsense all over the screen. Biggest splasher: muffin-faced Pianist and Professional Psychopath Oscar Levant ("On my own show I wear black tie and strait jacket"). Oscar warmly congratulated Paar-"You have the most responsive audience since Adolf Hitler in the good old days"-offered capsule analyses of a few colleagues. Eddie and Liz: "How high can you stoop?" Elsa Maxwell: "The oldest...