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...misinformed public opinion. Caplan's treatment of the insanity defense aims at discouraging us from seeing the defense as one or all of the following: an overused and therefore dangerous "legal loophole" (the words are, ironically, Richard M. Nixon's): a play-trial toy of the rich (the usual tabloid lore), or, thirdly, a legal contradiction (the view of behaviorists, who see free will as an illusion and absolve guilt for behavior caused by external forces. Such thinkers feel the judiciary must either bring the perpetrators of anti-social behavior into line by way of drugs, psychosurgery and therapy...
With 128 victories and a week to go in the season, "Gentleman Steve," as one tabloid calls him, is uncatchable. Cauthen, 24, has not only won more races than anyone else, he has won his spurs with the British public and ridden roughshod over those who wondered whether he was all washed up. And a good thing it is too, for Cauthen was in danger of becoming just another Trivial Pursuit question. Remember young Stevie? In 1977 the scrawny 5-ft. 1-in. 17-year-old dazzled the pari-mutuel bettors with an uncanny number of winners at Aqueduct...
...indecent exposure. In the late 1950s Miller was a prince among Broadway playwrights, but west of the Hudson he was less than a prince consort; he was Mr. Marilyn Monroe. For the 4½ years of their marriage, the egghead and the sex goddess were headliners in every tattling tabloid, and their divorce in 1961 hardly stilled the clucking, for the next year Monroe was dead from an overdose of barbiturates. Miller must have found this stardom by proxy offensive. Yet in a way, After the Fall accedes readily enough to the demands of celebrity: Tell us all, tell...
...Western world had a different opinion of who was responsible. The left-of-center Rome daily La Repubblica summed up the reaction in the bold headline THE HAWKS OF MOSCOW HAVE WON! The West German tabloid Bild carried a similar refrain: HONECKER, NYET! Said a top-ranking U.S. official: "This has got to impress everyone in the East bloc. They all want more autonomy, but the message from Moscow is that there are limits...
...American rock star turned secret agent, is being tortured. This happens off-camera, but we have some idea of his suffering because one of his tormentors has been introduced as "a moron who knows only what he reads in the New York Post," and he has been observed, tabloid in hand, slobbering. Our worst fears are confirmed when we learn Nick has not cracked and an escalation of his agony is required. "Do you want me to bring out the LeRoy Neiman paintings?" an underling asks the general in charge, his voice hushed by the enormity of the sadism proposed...