Word: stabs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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First came the murder of Kitty Genovese in the predawn darkness of the quiet, middle-class community of Kew Gardens. The murderer was a lunatic who had never seen her before. It took 35 minutes; the killer left and returned three times to stab her again and again while Kitty Genovese staggered and screamed and dragged herself along the street. The interesting thing about it was that the police established that at least 37 neighbors, roused out of bed by Kitty's screams, had stared out their dark windows at one time or another, but none of them...
UNFORGETTABLE: ARETHA FRANKLIN (Columbia). In tribute to the late Dinah Washington, Blues Singer Franklin makes a courageous stab at reproducing all "The Queen's" great hits, among them What a Diff'rence a Day Made, This Bitter Earth and Cold, Cold Heart. The arrangements pressed upon her are nothing short of sabotage, but Franklin survives them, wisely avoiding imitation in pursuit of even higher flattery...
...Koenigswarter, 50. The baroness had abandoned the aseptic, punctual world of her family* for the formless life of New York's night people. In 1955 she acquired undeserved notoriety when Charlie Parker died in her apartment (BOP KING DIES IN HEIRESS' FLAT); she had merely made an honest stab at saving his life with gifts of money and medicine in his last few days. From then on, though, Nica cut a wide swath in the jazz world...
...there was no money left for the guns. The defeated Ludwig, bewitched by Wagner, staged three more premieres before he succumbed to a paranoid fear of crowds that kept him away from opening nights. "Each time I enter my box," he said, "I feel as if a thousand needles stab me when I see all those binoculars turned at me." The king's therapy was truly regal: from 1872 until his death in 1886, he scheduled 209 performances at which, as sole spectator, he applauded madly and shouted "Bravo!" from his lonely...
...Cadillac for a new model every year; but he is concerned over sales because the Common Market's recent high tariff rise has cut his exports from 250,000 Ibs. to 15,000 Ibs. a month. Complains Rogers: "We taught them how to fry chicken, and now they stab us in the back...