Word: pervertedly
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Dates: during 1981-1981
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Drowning might have been better than enlightenment. Rabun, the relatives disclose, is a nasty pervert and financial highwayman robbing them of rightful trust funds. From the home front, Lundgren learns that Diana and Rabun have been carrying on in his absence. His cinematic version of revenge brakes just short of disaster...
...literate writer. He started with short stories in H.L. Mencken's The Smart Set, the home of such luminaries as Fitzgerald and Lewis, Huxley and Maugham, and ended up with the federal government trying to have his body removed from Arlington National Cemetery since Communist bones there would presumably pervert the sacredness of row after row of white crosses. His long-time companion, Lillian Hellman, who now runs his estate, refuses to allow anyone access to his papers for biographical purposes--presumably on the grounds that the man had had enough. Still, when Gertrude Stein first came to America, Hammett...