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Most nonprofessional killings are impulsive-done in a flash of anger triggered by a minor insult or a quarrel over money, love or sex. Many are committed by people who, Sociologist Stuart Palmer says, "tend to be overconforming most of the time"-which may help to explain their extreme violence when their rebellious impulses finally break out. Often the killer does not intend to kill; in at least 20% of the cases, he is acting in self-defense...
...CURRENT PRODUCTION the ending is unfortunately obscured by the way in which lights have been substituted for the storm. Obviously meteorological effects are not easily duplicated in a small-scale production, but the stop-action tableau which poses Rubek and Irene facing each other tenderly while the lights flash and die is unnecessarily ambiguous. Their only possible reunion should be clear: cold death on the great heights...
...earliest and most persistent antiwar Senators, McGovern began building a small but strong following with his co-sponsorship of the 1968 McGovern-Hatfield resolution calling for an end to the war. Though unsuccessful, the legislation occasioned a rare flash of fire from the quiet man. "Every Senator in this chamber is partly responsible for sending 50,000 young Americans to an early grave," McGovern fumed. "This chamber reeks of blood!" When Robert Kennedy was assassinated, McGovern sought to keep Bobby's antiwar supporters together by entering the race in his stead less than three weeks before the 1968 convention...
...view the surprising calm with which Leon Russell goes through the entire show, a look of distance on his face, wondering perhaps why he is stuck in back of a bank of amplifiers instead of playing out front as he usually does. Even during "Jumpin Jack Flash" when Harrison has ripped off his coat and the band is playing at a lever pitch. Russell stares vacantly across the stage, hardly working up a sweat, yet creating an air of excitement with his vocal and piano work...
...wrote Thomas de Quincey in Confessions of an English Opium Eater, "did my architecture proceed in dreams." Today, for an audience soaked in cheap psychedelia, Piranesi's prisons are a reminder that only complex and fastidious minds have trips that are worth recalling. They do not represent a flash of hallucination, but rather a state of mind, developed over a long span of time. Piranesi's stupendous architectural memory mutated involuntarily into dream and revealed the scope of his ambitions with a grandiosity that could not have been attained by any of the designs that he actually meant...