Word: ripper
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Yorkshire ripper kills again
Captain Broughton: I don't care if you've got Lizzie Borden going down on Jack the Ripper in the middle of Times Square. I've got enough whores, pimps, creeps and queers out there to start my own Macy's parade. Clean up this precinct first...
...John Merrick, the Elephant Man, who died at 27 in 1890, one of the most famous men in his country. With its peculiar mixture of propriety and prurience, Victorian England doted on real-life stories as fantastic as anything in the writings of Dickens or Conan Doyle. Jack the Ripper: the surgical knife beneath the opera cape. John Merrick: the heart of gold in the body of the world's ugliest man. For Merrick was no imbecile. He was an intelligent young man with the romantic sensibility of a Victorian swain. London society courted the Elephant Man; great ladies...
...erotic meeting of minds. "When we were talking on the phone," she says, "some secret compartment inside me burst, and I was suddenly overpowered by the feeling of love - a sensation I'd never experienced with any other man. Are you a variation of Jack the Ripper, who finally brings me love that I'm prevented from accepting - not by the knife but by old age?" She also tells Tynan that, in her rich experience, Englishmen made the best lovers. What more could a star-struck boy of 52 ask for? -R.Z. Sheppard