Word: stabs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Massachusetts Superior Court yesterday set March 8 as the trial date for the three defendants charged with the first degree murder of Harvard football player, Andrew Puopolo '77, who died December 17 from stab wounds he received in the Combat Zone in November...
Thomas J. Mundy Jr., assistant district attorney of the Suffolk County Superior Court, will prosecute the case for the state and for the two victims. The second victim is Thomas Lincoln '77 who has recovered from stab wounds he received during the same incident...
...Hitchcock works out of a bottomless pit of sinister imagination, and instead of making us feel sorry for the poor put-upon Joan Fontaine, he has us half-believing that she might have this coming to her. Only Hitchcock can make you want to rescue a protagonist and stab her at the same time, and the ambivalence chills. A neat double suspence turn-around caps off the film; all our sympathies change, and we start rooting for the once-hated Oliver faster than a smirk can spead across Hitchcock's face...
McCarthy devotes several pages to a demonstration that "France has always mixed politics with literature, and many great writers have been polemists (sic)," including Rabelais, Pascal and Voltaire. This stab at elevating Celine's propaganda to the level of genuinely profound thinkers in disparate eras, when the issues were different, is a bit strained. When McCarthy ranks Celine as a contributor to "a distinguished, yet troubling tradition," his discussion smacks of lame and unnecessary justification...
...last three Hasty Pudding Shows. (A note The Pudding Show, performed for several weeks each spring in drag, is recommended only for the very rich--tickets are around $6.50--or very preppy, or both.) Summer Work, to be presented at Dunster House, is supposed to be O'Donnell's stab at serious writing, but it will probably be very funny anyway...