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There is one other element recognizable from our own time: a serial killer is at work. He (she, perhaps?) is a slasher who abducts and mutilates boy prostitutes and escapes over rooftops. One observer proposes the startling notion that a misty swirl of radical, unsettling new theories about the workings of the human mind could be used by detectives to create a / psychological profile of the murderer. The man who offers this theory is an alienist (people who commit bizarre acts are said to be alienated from their right minds), Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, once a student of William James...
Library security has become an even more prominent issue since a book slasher struck the Widener stacks in 1991. But secret security cameras placed by University police on ceilings, shelves and in the books themselves cost Harvard at least $50,000 andfailed to catch the vandal. The cameras have sincebeen removed...
BUSINESS: A Builder, Not a Slasher...
...That vehement distaste led him to exclude the Godfather movies from his recent purchase of TV rights to 300 Paramount movies. Odd, then, that he's buying New Line, a company whose success has derived from gratuitous martial-arts violence (the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle movies) and gratuitous slasher-film violence (its Nightmare on Elm Street series, the Friday the 13th series...
Karter Reed was not so lucky, Paradoxically, his media image suffered because he was relatively normal. He was "a quiet boy and good student." Pity for poor Karter, for he didn't exemplify the convenient image of a kid failed by the society--up all night watching slasher flicks after being abused by one or more members of his dysfunctional family while the system turned a deaf ear to his horrible problems. There was nothing to blame in Karter's mundane backgroud except for the fact that he was also skate-boarding when they handed out brains and souls...