Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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These case histories gradually create a portrait of Victorian life-social sport, gossip, entertainment-centered on a succession of gory crimes. In the process the author dispels once again the myth that a genteel, civilized Victorian England ever existed. Its underside was a subculture of squalor, misery and brutality, all...
English reporting has always been hospitable to murder, and Altick, who is a professor of literature at Ohio State University, has done his homework well. The indoor doing-in record was set by Surgeon William Palmer, who got away with no fewer than six and very possibly as many as...
For years Shirley MacLaine has starred in a series of hectic comedies and adventures, often playing the heart-of-gold hooker (Irma La Douce, Two Mules for Sister Sara). Now, in a jaunty memoir, she puts forth the proposition that her own life has really been a lot more interesting...
She has also done the conventional things: campaigning tirelessly for liberal causes, dining with Henry Kissinger, out-wrestling movie moguls (said Hal Wallis: "Without me, she'd be a fading chorus girl instead of a fading star"). Most of all she has researched her roles with a zeal that...
Though Shirley still makes movies, she is already well into another book, apparently to be more of the same. The first one shows that she has enough talent to start a second career.