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...external circumstances were not harrowing enough, the jurors were subjected to macabre evidence and testimony. Color slides of Rackley's bullet-torn and tortured body were shown. Tapes were heard of the victim's whimpering voice, recorded by his fellow Panthers as they interrogated him before the killing. McLucas admitted that he had driven the car that took Rackley to the murder scene and that he had fired the second of two shots. The defendant insisted, however, that he had been an unwilling and-until the last moment-unwitting participant in the crime...
When not pioneering new items, Frederick's offers old ones with frills, such as panties with embroidered messages ("eeny, meeny, miny, moe, this is as far as you can go") and see-through wisps of nightgowns, designed to be torn off ("elastic straps and neckline are made to G-I-V-E with the action...
...little momentary selves: studio Eskimos, horseparlor dwarfs, rentable Texans and a legion of sad-eyed nobodies who have "come to California to die." Eros is their ethos, violence their pastime. They drift toward a climax in which a holy idiot stomps a depraved child actor and in turn is torn to pieces by a giggling...
Giant Steppe. Pierre Cardin was positively torn. Half of his presentation looked to the future, featuring skintight pants outfits with hoods and cutouts of circles, rectangles and even pear shapes slashed into long skirts. The other half turned on the past, with tight little jackets and dresses Susan B. Anthony would have been the first to vote for. Showstoppers: a series of sweeping Byronic capes and a black-sequined evening gown that undulates like a Japanese lantern in a gentle wind...
ALGIERS, Algeria-The Republic of Chad celebrates a decade of independence from France on August 14. But anniversary celebrations are likely to be limited. The country, a wind-swept desert sandbox in north central Africa, is torn by a protracted guerrilla war which began in June 1966 and has led to the intervention of 2,000 French troops...