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...murder's infamy usually derives from the renown of the victim or the ghastliness of the crime. But when Richard Adan, 22, a budding playwright and a waiter, was stabbed last summer by a restaurant patron, the fascination focused on the killer: Jack Henry Abbott, Marxist, existentialist, prison murderer, author (In the Belly of the Beast) and, beginning a few weeks before Adan's killing, literary celebrity (see ESSAY). On his 38th birthday last week in Manhattan, Abbott was found guilty of manslaughter. Because he admitted that he had killed Adan, the verdict was considered a victory...
Following the lead of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, Bennett opts to develop the story line almost entirely in song, including operatic recitatives. The tale is rather like the saga of the Supremes' rise from Harlem's Apollo Theater to top-of-the-pop-charts renown, to gether with the emergence of Diana Ross...
...Cabinet meeting earlier endorsed the unconditional freeing of 39 of the 44 mercenaries, who were warned to keep a low profile and not to discuss the coup attempt. The other five, including the raid's leader, Colonel Michael ("Mad Mike") Hoare, 62, a veteran mercenary who achieved renown of a sort in the Congo during the '60s, got off lightly. Instead of being charged with hijacking, which could have brought a mandatory sentence of five to 30 years, the five were accused of kidnaping, a lesser crime with no mandatory penalty. Moreover, the charge may not stick, since...
...lives, Eric Liddell (Ian Charleson) explains to his earnest sister his motivation for running: "God made me fast, and when I run I feel His pleasure." Liddell plans on a missionary career in China, but first he must spread public awareness of the Lord by himself acquiring worldwide renown. His sister fears that fame will corrupt the purity of his soul, but she needn't worry. Liddell refuses to race in the Olympic preliminary heats because they occur on Sunday; instead, he delivers a sermon in church...
...established himself as the first of the modern American assassins. Though full of fustian about his love for the Confederacy (he managed to avoid fighting for it, or even living in it, during the Civil War), Booth was clear-headed and precise about the psychic rewards and second-hand renown that come with dispatching a famous man. "What a glorious opportunity for a man to immortalize himself by killing Abraham Lincoln!" he remarked two years before his crime...