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...Bastogne, a member of the Oklahoma City police department, a house detective at Miami's lush Deauville Hotel, an organizer of a West Palm Beach Young Republican Club and an assistant scoutmaster. He had also served time for bookmaking and armed robbery, had been arrested for attempted rape...
Welsh unrest during the 19th century provides the background for Cordell's romance novels, which relate the doings and stewings of a wild country clan called the Mortymers. The present book, sequel to The Rape of the Fair Country, moves the Mortymers to the coal-mining and farming town of Carmarthen in time for the Rebecca riots of 1839-44. Strapping young Jethro, the book's hero, joins the night-riding Rebeccas-angry farmers who black their faces and wear their wives' nightgowns to raid the hated tollgates, which devour profits on produce taken to market...
...warmth and kindliness, were awed and charmed by his patrician bearing. They were also amazed by a memory artist who could quote whole pages of law he had not seen for years, and delighted by an impious wit who, in defense of a teen-aged boy accused of raping a woman in her late 30s, could indignantly protest that the charge should be not rape but "felonious gallantry...
...what it delivers is merely a phony hotel room key and a whiff of perfume. A certain amount of houghmagandy does occur ("His touch on her body was the lightest she could ever imagine and it awakened every single nerve . . ."), but it is pallid stuff compared with the rape, incest, flagellation and other veneries of Peyton Place and Return to Peyton Place. If Author Metalious continues such deception, her readers will all go back to Jack Woodford, the U.S.'s leading plain-wrapper author (Dangerous Love, Illicit...
...20th Century-Fox's film version of William Faulkner's Sanctuary, not yet completed, might have been shot two ways almost from beginning to end. since a literal version of the novel would be impossible on the American screen, particularly the notorious "rape" of Temple Drake by the impotent Popeye. Instead, the moviemakers have opted to masculate Popeye and remove the more unorthodox elements of the rape scene, leaving little to be double-filmed but an active bedroom encounter between Yves Montand and Lee Remick. "The European version I like best," says Montand with a half-bored Gallic...