Word: killer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Furthermore, the snarling, guttural singing style of the group's lead singer--Mr. David Byrne--along with the hypnotic, repetitious, electronically treated music the group provides, could provoke listeners with extant mental imbalances to acts of violent destruction. The same group, in fact, performed a song called "Psycho Killer" on an earlier album...
...track down the Ripper, nine of whose victims were prostitutes, police have mounted the biggest manhunt in British history. Since the killer claimed his eleventh victim in April, a 300-man "Ripper squad" has scoured the "triangle of terror" in West Yorkshire and Lancashire, where the murders have taken place. Using information provided by sev eral women who survived his assault, police have circulated a description of a powerfully built suspect between 30 and 45. Authorities are also trying to take advantage of the fact that British accents can be very distinctive. Experts who have analyzed the Ripper...
...fragile. Readers who have grown over the years to admire the superb moody intelligence of Joan Didion's prose have first had to learn that this alarming vulnerability is an affectation and a part of her strategy as a writer. Despite all the fits of weeping and the killer migraines and the California dreads that blow across her novels and essays like the Santa Ana winds, Didion is on the whole as tough as a bounty hunter, and about as fragile as a brick of molybdenum. The wounded bird is even something of a predator...
From the Administration there was almost an audible sigh of relief after Kissinger's appearance. Because he had given no clue to what he intended to say, some Carter aides had feared that the former Secretary might propose "killer amendments." After the Tuesday testimony, the State Department said that while it did not agree with all of Kissinger's points, it welcomed his "general approach...
...French fries for lunch. A slab of roast beef and a sour cream-topped baked potato for dinner Typical of the American lifestyle, such fatty, cholesterol-rich foods have long been cited by doctors as the primary cause of coronary artery disease, the nation's No. 1 killer. To keep the arteries unclogged, they have been urging a diet low in fats, stressing vegetables, poultry and fish over beef, eggs and dairy products...