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...laughed them back to their cells at dusk. These prisoner/guards--called trusties--beat other inmates with a devilish tool called a strap, a leather slab with a wooden handle that, when handled "properly," can knock a victim six inches into the air. They tortured them by running pins and razor blades along the soft flesh under their fingernails. They gang-raped them in the barred dormitories where each prisoner slept with an arm flung over his eyes to block out light from the naked light bulbs that were never turned...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Cool Hand Bob | 6/27/1980 | See Source »

...only film in months that deserves a second look. The horrors of the Torrances' battle against Overlook obscure Kubrick's careful hand the first time around. Only a second journey through the padded hallways and inviting doors of the mysterious Room 237 reveals the brilliance of a director whose razor-sharp art draws both from precise science and glassy-eyed witchcraft...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: A Night in Shining Horror | 6/23/1980 | See Source »

...from the former horse trainer in 1977. DeRosa, however, had fallen behind in his payments, and now it might have come time for Jacobson to ask for a favor. Police speculate that DeRosa, attaché case in hand, brought a gray suit to the House of Detention and a razor for Jacobson to shave off his distinctively droopy mustache. Without the mustache, one police officer said of the fugitive, Jacobson looks "very forgettable." DeRosa has since been indicted, and is being held on $500,000 bail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Fox Is on the Run | 6/16/1980 | See Source »

...humanity's traditionally more wrinkle-conscious sex. Estée Lauder, purveyor of expensive creams, lotions and fragrances for women, offers a gilt-edged line of 70 different men's products under the Aramis label. Included in the list: pre-shave cleansing soaps to reduce razor drag and facial scrubs for use on the nose and forehead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Macho Glop | 6/16/1980 | See Source »

Without a hint of despair or ill health he had taken a room at the Winken Blinken Motor Hotel one starry evening in April and slit both wrists with a razor blade. Morgan has spent a large part of his life trying to find out why. The possibility had begun to settle upon him, as imperceptibly as dust, that perhaps there hadn't been a reason at all. Maybe a man's interest in life could just thin up to a trickle and dry up; was that...

Author: By Paul R. Q. wolfson, | Title: Psychoerrata | 4/12/1980 | See Source »

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