Word: reinaldo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their victims they seemed pretty normal at first, even admirable. Reinaldo Silvestre, a charming Miami con man with no medical training, is alleged to have operated on his plastic-surgery patients by shoving implants into their chests with a spatula; several were permanently mutilated. A drifter named Luis Garavito confessed in October to kidnapping, torturing and killing 140 children over five years in Colombia. Dylan Klebold went to the prom (and Eric Harris wanted to) before shooting up Columbine High in April. Predators with such little regard for morality and human life defy rational explanation, right...
...Reinaldo Arenas' book, The Doorman, bears some resemblance to the popular Ray Bradbury work The Martian Chronicles. Both satirize contemporary life by mixing symbols of daily existence with elements of the fantastic. In Bradbury's book, however, these various aspects were perfectly mixed and balanced. The author wove his tale using both these elements as his thread. Arenas is not nearly so skilled a craftsman...