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Yet to the Hungarians who survived the dreadful three months of the World War II battle of Budapest, the army's presence and the memory of the cloud of death that hung over the city in April 1945 are inseparable. Not until that army leaves will "liberation" end and...
He said the press can be held in "criminal contempt" if this law is violated and cited the instance when one newspaper described an accused murderer as a human vampire who drank the blood of his victims." He called television coverage of Lee Harvey Oawald dreadful.
"Ticky-Tacky Students." A handsome, grey-haired woman with hazel eyes, Malvina Reynolds says she prefers to make her points quietly. "Lashing out is self-defeating," she explains. "It raises hackles." For all that, there are probably a lot of vertical hackles in the housing developments along Skyline Boulevard. Mrs...
Dr. Crippen emerges as one of those improbable figures that hold the headlines of the British penny-dreadful press. He is a poor man's pill-pusher, a sallow runt with "codfish eyes" and a large compensatory mustache, which doesn't impress his wife. "You're not...
One Fat Englishman is very funny. But by the time Amis lets his ployman homeward plod his weary way, the reader finds his heart wrung with pity. In a puzzling way, the appalling Roger has endeared himself. It is not just that Roger himself in odd moments has recognized that...