Word: macdonaldization
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...case of Captain Jeffrey MacDonald, the Green Beret doctor whose wife and two daughters were brutally murdered in their home at Fort Bragg, N.C., in 1970, has led a succession of investigators on a shocking voyage of discovery. MacDonald claimed (and still does) that a band of drug-crazed hippies committed the carnage. But Army investigators found holes in his story and soon began to suspect MacDonald. When charges against MacDonald were dropped because of insufficient evidence, his father-in-law led a crusade to find the murderers. After examining the evidence, he, too, became convinced that...
...part NBC movie is about to take viewers through the fascinating mystery. With meticulous direction by David Greene (Friendly Fire) and a well-chosen cast headed by Gary Cole as MacDonald and Karl Maiden as his avenging inlaw, the four-hour drama is absorbing from beginning to end. But this time around, the long voyage of discovery has acquired some dubious shortcuts...
...MacDonald was a charming, Princeton-educated, ail-American boy, whose friends insisted that he was incapable of such a brutal crime. TV's MacDonald, however, is far more transparent. His account of the crime to Army interrogators is halting and unconvincing. On TV talk shows (where he delights in lambasting the Army's botched investigation) he seems oily and mean spirited. Even the flashback scenes of MacDonald's purportedly happy marriage are sprinkled with signs of trouble. (When MacDonald invites some friends for Christmas drinks at the last minute, he blithely ignores his wife's understandable...
Such brain injuries are not uncommon among boxers. An American doctor, Harrison Martland, observed as early as 1928 that boxers who took considerable punishment could become punch-drunk. Other physicians have documented the damage to fighters' brains. British Neurologist MacDonald Critchley reported in 1957 that a boxer's chances of suffering brain damage increased in direct proportion to the number of bouts fought. Another British researcher, Dr. J.A.N. Corsellis, reported in 1973 that he had examined the brains of 15 former fighters who had died of natural causes. Corsellis observed a striking pattern of cerebral changes rarely found...
...small d. That Mcdonald. Not the late Ross Macdonald, creator of the estimable Lew Archer, nor John D. MacDonald, inventor of Travis McGee. Why three unrelated Americans with, more or less, the same Scottish clan name should have written some of the best detective stories of the past couple of decades is, appropriately enough, a mystery. But Gregory Mcdonald is appealingly fresh and impudent in his tales of Fletch, the irreverent reporter, and Flynn, the Boston supercop. The civilized and resourceful Inspector Francis Xavier Flynn is on duty here, spying out malefaction at something called the Rod and Gun Club...