Word: killer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Credulity," Charles Lamb observed, "is the man's weakness, but the child's strength." The principal ingredient of The Fool Killer is false belief-in the evanescent ghosts of folklore that are part of a boy's education and a grownup's destruction...
...twelve-year-old orphan named George (Edward Albert) runs away from his guardians. His life takes on a Huckleberry hue, and a series of encounters leads him to the beginning of maturity. His first is with Dirty Jim (Henry Hull), an unregenerate old buzzard who prattles of "a fool killer," who poleaxes wrongdoers as they sleep. The figure haunts George's dreams until he actually finds him in the person of another fugitive: Milo Bogardus (Anthony Perkins...
...Lazorcaks, inflation is the killer of the dream. One reason, Lazorcak says, is rising rent-up $15 a month last year. His wife stretches the dollar by growing her own fruits and vegetables in a garden. The couple's last night out was on their sixth anniversary-and it cost them a prohibitive $40. Lazorcak, a high-school graduate, thinks only vaguely about going to college some day to study architecture. He has abandoned hopes of opening additional pizza shops because, unlike the heads of bigger businesses, he cannot raise money. Diane has dropped plans to enlarge their kitchen...
Fortunately, Jackie's other qualities include a thick skin and the killer reflexes of a mongoose. In a recent taped TV interview-later judiciously edited -she drew first and last blood from a female reporter...
Just then the shocked silence was broken by screams and everyone started to stampede away from the spot, as if the killer had gone beserk. A thousand people were running down the street at full speed. I heard another shot. Two. Three. More screams. Then the stampede stopped and people were beginning to gather around the wounded woman again. No one else had been hit. From the gestures of the people around the scene, I supposed that the gunman had run down a side street that angled off of Rampart...