Word: knowingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Jimmy Caragianes, strolling in the midafternoon sun down Pearl St., across the snowbanks and through the slush, is a moving center of attention. Everyone but everyone know him--drivers slow to ask if he needs a ride, passersby wave or shout...
Pacino trundles Serpico-style to Greenwich Village and sets up shop. He spends days with his nextdoor neighbor, Ted (Don Scardino), a gay playwright ("you know, boy meets boy, boy loses boy, boy gets analyst") who is scared to death of cruising, preferring to frequent more traditional gay cafes that Friedkin never shows. Nights, Pacino cruises, donning his leather outfit like a pudgy boy pulling on his first Halloween costume. Later, of course, the leather will no longer be a costume and Pacino will stop fumbling with the cruising paraphernalia. He will fit into the crowd in that hole across...
Like Son of Sam, Friedkin's killer is an impotent homosexual. He's a Columbia student who forays nightly to Christopher St. with the words of his long-dead father ringing in his ears: "You know what you have to do..." So he kills; to please his father, to expiate his self-hatred, his homosexuality, to obey the Catholic commandments he reads religiously, he hunts on Christopher St. for sacrificial victims. After each stabbing he mutters to the ghost of his father, "You made...
...have been only a couple of broken collarbones and one broken ankle. But for all its speed and treachery, the Lake Placid run is a bobsledder's dream. Says Jim Gragg, manager of the bobsled run recreation area: "The drivers have the greatest respect for this run. They know that it's dangerous, but they also know that they can run it very fast...
This simply cannot be all there is to it, chief. The folks at Bantam did not pay all that money just to make Judith Krantz happy. They know something, and we should ferret it out. Suggestion: Why not send the reviewer off on an expense-account tour of some of the glamorous locales in the novel? To Venice, for instance, a room at the Gritti Palace, drinks and long languorous meals at Harry's Bar. The secret of this book may rest right there. Look how this magical place affects the heroine: "Venice inspired her to meet its fantasy...