Word: tates
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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HAVE YOU heard of Joe Orton? Tate? Joplin? Hendrix? Separating individual merit from phantasmagoric death-legend is the whole problem in these cases. If you are asked who Orton is, you had better be ready with information: he was a homosexual, a British playwright killed in a ritual hammer slaying in 1967. What comes up second when Orton's name is mentioned is the fact that he wrote Loot, Entertaining Mr. Sloane and several other black comedies. Loot, you see, has a corpse for its focus, just as Orton's life, ironically and grotesquely, had in the final tally...
...tested the upper reaches of production and consumption, they opened up new territories of violence. The war would not end. For all the professed incredulity about it, the My Lai massacre has dripped acids onto the nation's conviction of its own innocence. At home, the Sharon Tate murders were so incomprehensible as to excite a stunned awe at what orgies of violence are possible. In the presence of such insanities, many Americans have grown introspective. It is a reaction built on residues of abhorrence going back through sad, internal video tapes to Nov. 22, 1963. Americans seem...
Describing her murderous night with a knife in the home of Sharon Tate, she demonstrated a disassociation, an unbridgeable chasm between the act and the emotions that should be attached to it. But-and it is a "but" of doubt that will never entirely leave the Manson story-she also showed an ability to make legal points that served a clear end: to absolve her leader and accuse the state's chief witness, Linda Kasabian...
...jurors heard Susan Atkins describe herself murdering Miss Tate, who was in her last month of pregnancy: "She said, 'Please, all I want to do is have my baby.' I said, 'Don't move, don't talk to me. I don't want to hear it.' I just stabbed her, and she fell, and I stabbed her again. I don't know how many times I stabbed her." Atkins dipped a towel in Miss Tate's blood and wrote PIG on the front door of the house...
...trial of Charles Manson and his tribe was from the beginning like a species of absurdist theater. The defense, in effect, was no defense at all. The lawyers representing Manson and the three women charged with the Sharon Tate and LaBianca murders had no outside witnesses to help their case. The attorneys were afraid to put the women on the stand, believing that they would take full responsibility for the killings in order to absolve Manson...