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...evaluation to a private firm called Government Personnel Consultants in Oak Brook, Ill., where they were gone over by a psychologist and a lie-detector specialist. The chiefs instincts were correct. The man whom he had suspected confessed that only a week before he was hired he had committed rape. The case was on the town's list of unsolved crimes...
Although the vote was officially 5-4, it was really closer than that. All nine Justices wrote opinions, and only two-Brennan and Marshall-declared that capital punishment per se is cruel and unusual. Douglas, White and Stewart all felt that the death sentences in the murder and two rape cases before the court had been applied "wantonly and freakishly," to use Stewart's words, because only a tiny minority of defendants convicted of similar offenses suffer the same fate. They left open the possibility, however, that a law would be constitutional if it called for capital punishment...
That the rotund Briton's career should attract such widespread interest reveals our own starvation these days for good clean harmless thrills. (Murder is made actually disgusting in Frenzy in only one shot, that of a strangled rape victim, expired, with eyes bulging and her tongue hanging out). Ignore all those metaphysically-minded Frenchmen who treat even the man's stinkers with respect, and forget the cultists who enshrine his purely technical skills and elevate them to levels of high art. Hitchcock is a popular craftsman, and what matters to him are the tricks which make audiences respond with pleasure...
...curator is "without limit of time." The appointment extends indefinitely but can be terminated any time at the pleasure of the President. Such an appointment lacks the security of a tenured position. As one Faculty member observed wryly. "To get thrown out, a tenured professor really has to rape little girls. Lots of them. One wouldn't be enough." Presumably, for an administrator, one would be enough...
...order Mayor Frank Rizzo heard that the casting and shipping would come to another $177,000, the news turned him into an instant art critic. "Government of the People," said Rizzo, "looks like some plasterer dropped a load of plaster. The art people are out to rape this city." But when art lovers began to ante up private contributions, Rizzo relented. If they pay for Government's bills, he said, "we'll find a spot...