Word: psychopathics
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However well he conceals it, every leading American politician is acutely aware that some day he may be the target of the wild frustrations of a psychopath−"the kind of sullen person who broods in rooming houses," in the striking phrase of Democratic Presidential Candidate Morris Udall. The news of Ford's near escape from death made the current presidential candidates, avowed or coy, even more apprehensive, but they were saying little about their concerns in public...
Long Romance. During World War II, Giancana stayed out of the service by being honest. What do you do for a living? his draft board asked. "I steal," Giancana replied. The board promptly rejected him for Army duty, describing him as "a constitutional psychopath [with] an inadequate personality and strong anti-social trends...
Baer is careful to give the criminals an odd kind of motivation. The one who does the killing is a psychopath who had himself been brutalized by cops. When he realizes that the woman is a police man's wife, he goes crazy. The implication that violence breeds more violence is not novel, but welcome nonetheless in a time when audiences cheer and holler as Charles Bronson plays judge and jury with a pistol...
...without which a prison movie is not complete and where we have all done too much hard time. Finally, a compromise is reached. Reynolds will organize, coach and star on a team of inmates who are supposed to give the guards a tune-up game. Naturally, he recruits every psychopath in the slammer for his squad. Naturally, the game itself turns out to be more pier brawl than football-cruel but perhaps funnier than nice people like to admit. Naturally, when it looks as if the prisoners will win, Reynolds is asked to-and almost does-throw the game. Finally...
...Midnight Man is neither an exotic spy stalking the romantic capitals of the espionage world nor a menacing psychopath stalking some picturesque Gothic mansion. Rather, he is a weary night watchman, working the lobster shift at a backwater college, who has the misfortune to discover a murdered coed on his rounds. Jim Slade is a onetime top cop who has just done time for killing his cheating wife and has taken this job only because it is the closest thing to police work the parole board will allow. Portrayed by Burt Lancaster -who is turning into an attractive, hard-working...