Word: bernhard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...complicated public image of Bernhard Goetz, New York City's "subway vigilante," seems to be shifting. The initial perception of him as a mild-mannered Clark Kent who changed into an intrepid punk stopper was certified last January when a grand jury refused to indict the weedy, self- employed engineer for attempted murder. But lately Goetz's righteous aura has been smudged by new revelations, principally that he admitted firing a bullet into one of his four victims with the words "You don't look so bad. Here's another...
...inflexible rule of journalese is that American assassins must have three names: John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, James Earl Ray, Mark David Chapman. This courtesy of a resonant three-part moniker is also applied to other dangerous folk. This is why the "subway vigilante" is "Bernhard Hugo Goetz" to many journalists who consider him a monster, and just plain "Bernhard Goetz" to almost everyone else. Another rule of the language is that euphemisms for "fat" are understood too quickly by the public and are therefore in constant need of replacement. "Jolly," "Rubenesque" and the like have long been abandoned...
...look so bad," said the gunman to one of the four youths who had accosted him. "Here's another." With those chilling words, New York City's acclaimed "subway vigilante" Bernhard Goetz fired another shot at Darrell Cabey, 19. Goetz had already wounded the young man's three friends, who lay bleeding on the floor of the subway car. When he saw Cabey with no blood on him, he decided to shoot again. These details of the Dec. 22 incident were made public last week in a report written by police in Concord, N.H., where Goetz surrendered last New Year...
...Bernhard Goetz, who was mugged on the train in 1981, was a regular subway rider even after that assault. Surely he, like all other regular subway riders, has seen just about every imaginable thing, and some that have led to the phrase "only in New York" becoming a cliche, like the man who rode the IND with a Burmese python wrapped around his neek. One of those things is kids with sharpened screwdrivers in their jackets asking you for money to play video games. But in Bernhard Goetz, something finally snapped, and he told four Black teenagers that...
...other truism that has been applied in this ethical equation two wrongs don't make is an indictment, for attempted murder and a trial of Bernhard Goetz that is a fair as possible in a city where-violence is accepted even applauded, and possession of a handgun is illegal but shooting four other people, apparently...