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...innumerable city residents and the gunman as a real-life counterpart of the vigilante hero portrayed by Charles Bronson in the 1974 movie Death Wish. But it was the vigilante who had committed one of the most violent subway crimes in years. Police distributed thousands of flyers bearing a sketch of the gunman, whose likely age they put at 25 to 30, and at week's end claimed to have received some leads from citizens who did not think him worthy of praise. Said New York Mayor Ed Koch: "This city will not tolerate vigilantism. That's the difference between...
...Executive Producer Dick Ebersol explains, "He gets on a city bus, and there's one black man on it. The instant the black man gets off and it's just white people, they pull out music and cards and have parties." Murphy also performed in a sketch called "Milestones," depicting South African Bishop Desmond Tutu and Heisman Trophy Winner Doug Flutie. Presumably, Murphy always wanted to play the bishop, but then again . . . "They are 17 of the best dancers in the world." So says Sir Richard Attenborough, 61, appraising his cast for the film version of A Chorus...
There is a drawing of Thomas More dating from 1527, just eight years before Henry VIII had him beheaded for refusing to recognize the King's right to divorce Catherine of Aragon and marry Anne Boleyn. Hans Holbein's sketch shows a prosperous Londoner in a fur-trimmed robe, surrounded by his family and his possessions-silver dishes in the cupboard, and a shelf or two of those rare luxuries, books. Mounted on the wall, dangling above More's head like a sword, hangs a clock...
...Whitecloud, first launched in 1976, is a continuing operation. As it turns out, the envelope designer was no great intelligence sleuth. Robert Rank of Union City, N.J., a supervisor for the New York City social-services department and freelance souvenir maker, believes he found the model for his envelope sketch and the description of Whitecloud in a 1976 issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology...
...Guild. In The Ink Truck, the real is bent into the surreal. Dingy neighborhoods are weirdly illuminated by arsonists' flames; alleys echo to pagan rites; Old World myths are superimposed on the present. There are elegiac hallucinations of the past and an up-to-date orgy, a perky sketch of a bare female torso, and batty headlines, such as PIGS ARE WHERE YOU FIND THEM, OUTLAW DECIDES: SOUL IS A PORK CHOP, HE DISCOVERS...