Word: murderers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Totem and Taboo, relates the phenomenon of the young men in the primal horde, who, after destroying the totem/father, whom they perceive as an obstacle to sexual fulfillment, feel guilt at the destructive act, and a resurgence of affection. From this springs the taboo against parricide, fratricide, and, eventually, murder in general. Miller's final selection is from a biography of Proust, which tells of the young Proust's trauma at the denial of his mother's kiss at age seven, which the author perceives as the turning point in Proust's psycho-sexual development...
...defense also belatedly learned that wax droppings had been found at the murder scene and that these also did not match any possible sources of wax in the house. The prosecution did not mention this information before the hearing, though MacDonald had maintained from the beginning that one of the intruders had carried a soft, candlelike light while chanting "Acid is groovy. Kill the pigs. Hit 'em again." Then there were the unidentified fingerprints. Though 46 such prints were found-including one in blood in Mrs. MacDonald's jewelry box-none was ever sent...
...Kassab, was satisfied. Kassab has mounted a petition campaign to members of Congress and others to prompt a new effort to find the intruders he believes killed his daughter and grandchildren. "From now on," says MacDonald, "I'll be thought of as the man who got away with murder." Perhaps not. Responding to a variety of accusations about the case, the Army has said that it will at last investigate the manner in which the prosecution and the investigators handled matters. Two weeks ago, three CID agents from Washington arrived at Fort Bragg to begin work. Jeffrey MacDonald...
...communicate with his attorney to help prepare a defense. The attorney, Lowell Myers, is himself deaf and specializes in representing deaf-mutes. Myers contends that Lang and the woman, who was neither deaf nor mute, were attacked while walking to her house from a nearby tavern. After the murder, the lawyer notes, Lang "went into a bar and tried to get some help. Nobody paid any attention." That does not seem to be the act of a guilty man, says Myers, but "Lang can't tell me what happened...
This Man Must Die. Claude Chabrol's most recent American-released film is perhaps not so tightly conceived as last year's La Femme Infidele -but it may also be this director's funniest thriller. As usual, the story deals with murder and the way murder changes complex human relationships. The color (particularly the late-Hitchcockesque blues) is more florid than ever, and there are two scenes that can only be described as amazing: one involving a dinner at a bourgeois French family's home, the other featuring the carving of a duck...