Word: ripper
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Columnist Jimmy Breslin). He has phoned precinct headquarters to say which neighborhood he planned to hit next. But he was neither caught nor cowed, and an aroused modern police force looked no more effective in preventing this type of crude terror than Scotland Yard in dealing with Jack the Ripper's preannounced plans to kill London prostitutes in 1888. He killed half a dozen and was never caught...
...here today, ha ha!") and on to the financial tables ("Super! Our stock's up!"). Now backward toward the front page again, ripping out headlines, paragraphs and whole stories that either please or peeve him, depositing the clippings on his night table for future action. Exhausted, Punch the Ripper flings the eviscerated carcass to the floor. And as the clock strikes 12, he sinks into the sweet sleep of a man who knows, as his paper's motto has it, all the news that 's fit to print...
Waiting for him to strike again, New Yorkers are grimly recalling the Boston Strangler and Jack the Ripper. Like those classic murderers, the Son of Sam seems intent on killing women. Most of his attacks have been on long haired brunettes, many of them sitting in parked cars at night with their boy friends. Two of the male victims were wearing shoulder-length brown hair, and police think that the killer may have mistaken them for females...
...Temptress, she is a rough operatic equivalent of Don Giovanni. She consumes the men-and one lesbian-who love her, then is consumed by them and destroyed. She ends up as a streetwalker, and the final slash of the knife is delivered by none other than Jack the Ripper. Some stage directors choose to play up the trampy side of Lulu. Dexter has made her an innocent, totally unaware of the evil effect she has on those around her. In the process Dexter has robbed Lulu (and Farley) of the intensity she needs. Up against Donald Gramm's fierce...
...imply that a collection of colored smears and slobberings and pieces of a pack-rat nest is art and its creator Robert Rauschenberg is an artist is akin to saying that what Jack the Ripper did was surgery and he was a surgeon...