Word: rifkin
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...Irving) is crippled with obsession over Hitler's mistreatment of Jews. He (Ron Rifkin) is a raging, gelded bull. And Arthur Miller, in a scalding play that brought him back to Broadway 50 years after his debut, is still pursuing his theme: that connecting with other people is at once our most destructive and redemptive condition. Brilliant, remorseless drama...
...Joel Rifkin, a landscape gardener from Long Island, New York, who has admitted killing 17 women, was convicted of second-degree murder in the death of Tiffany Bresciani -- the first of the slayings to come to trial. Rifkin's insanity plea was rejected...
...Wasps banker husband? Is it somehow tied to her Cassandra-like obsession with Hitler's assault on German Jews, a threat in which no one around her sees urgency? Or is her disability a plea for attention? Meditating on these dilemmas are Sylvia (Amy Irving), her volatile husband (Ron Rifkin) and a doctor (David Dukes), who, without training, tries to psychoanalyze her, but begins to seduce her instead...
...killing methods as hanging, strangling or stabbing, which put them in intimate contact with their victim. "The only time serial murderers have control is when they kill," says Birnes. "That's why they keep totems." For instance: the body parts Dahmer put in his refrigerator, the victims' jewelry that Rifkin kept or the bodies buried in basements and yards. These mementos allow them to hang on to the highlights and relive them...
...more grotesque the deed, the greater the killer's appeal. In the panoply of murderers, Long Island landscaper Joel Rifkin, who goes on trial this month for the death of 17 young women, is just a garden-variety killer. The man- eating Dahmer is the pick of the crop. "People are getting very morbidly involved in violence, especially violent sexual behavior," says criminologist Robert Ressler, who says he first coined the term serial killer 20 years ago when he worked in the FBI's behavioral-research branch. Americans now wallow in the horror and gore and take a guilty delight...