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...charges connected with the double rapes of a mother and her 14-year-old daughter last June. Charges are expected to be filed against Simonis and Dickinson in at least seven other cities. Says Photographic Assistant Judy Christman, 23, a former girlfriend of both men: "They loved the thrill of meanness, to have their adrenaline running so fast...
...This hedgehogness beats at my brain," he says. "I'm sick of feeling the same goddam thrill--I sort of want to fox it, just go out. I'd just like to be a doctor--I'd love to be a politician. Great politicians are great actors, I think: Caesar, Goethe, Gandhi--they're acting, but in the stuff of life...
First, there was the Princeton game of '79, in which Scheper scored his only touchdown of the season. "It was a trap play right over my brother's butt." Scheper says. "I gave him the ball afterward. That was such a big thrill for me." Second, there was Harvard's amazing 22-7 upset win over undefeated Yale in New Haven. "I was more excited for Dave than anything else," Scheper says...
...anecdotes, these tales, but spun out at a certain lazy length with persuasive details added by a sympathetic storyteller, they sometimes cling to the mind in a way that grander works do not. Reminding us that quite ordinary lives can be overwhelmed by extraordinary passions, these domestic dramas often thrill their listeners with romantic openings only to chill them with bleak conclusions...
...movie is simply a series of bangs that end with a whimper. Director Christopher Miles has apparently confused action with sex, character with caricature. With Priest of Love, he achieves the impossible. He reduces the pathos of Lawrence last years, spent in exile and pain, to a cheap thrill. Lawrence and Freida leave England soon after the British censor. Herbert G. Muskett (John Gielgud) publicly burns available copies of The Rainbow by court order. They sail to American to seek refuge and patronage from Mabel Dodge Luhan (Ava Gardner), a wealthy rancher in New Mexico. At a party given...