Word: ripper
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...Persons in Massachusetts, emphasizes that "while homosexual murders attract great attention, their incidence is rare." In mass murder, he has found, "sex doesn't seem to be the motivation." One trait that Kozol has found in common among mass murderers: "A certain homogeneity about the victims." Jack the Ripper, for example, invariably chose prostitutes, and the Boston Strangler (13 victims) selected mostly elderly women...
...appearances of normality, a hair cut and the most elegant Victorian dress. (We're in the 1950s, so if this seems a little odd, we can chalk it up to that tolerated margin.) Actually, Jack has come to believe that the year is 1888, the year of Jack the Ripper--the year of Jack Guerney, whose trick is to study given circumstance and manipulate it to fit with the new delusion...
...Florence Nightingale had ever nursed you, Mr. Whiteside, she would have married Jack the Ripper instead of founding the Red Cross." The ailing ogre being scolded by his nurse is of course Sheridan Whiteside in The Man Who Came to Dinner. Now claiming the role made famous by Monty Woolley was none other than Orson Welles. "The part of Whiteside was written for me," said Welles. "They offered it to me first, but I didn't do it." Thirty-three years later, Welles finally agreed to star in an "updated" TV version. The critics' reactions were as waspish...
...balance of the film is concerned with the family's plan to do Jack out of his inheritance, Jack's marriage to an actress (Carolyn Seymour) and his progress toward sanity. Surrendering for a time the identity of God, he becomes Jack the Ripper, murders his flirtatious aunt and makes an enormously successful speech in the House of Lords-a ringing call for a return to law, order and morality...
...minutes on Saturday morning, it might have seemed that General Jack D. Ripper, the manic guardian of "precious bodily fluids" from Dr. Strangelove, was at the controls. From the Army's civil defense warning center in Colorado's Cheyenne Mountain, a signal was flashed directly onto the wires of the Associated Press and United Press International. It was a notification that the nation was in a state of emergency, confirmed by an appropriately sinister code "authenticator"-HATEFULNESS, HATEFULNESS. Scores of radio and television stations across the nation broadcast the emergency...