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...Tribune took aim at the impressionistic new stage set with which Rudolf Bing & Co. have tried to brighten Don Giovanni, and let go with both barrels: "In this presentation, Don Giovanni lives just across the street from Donna Anna, but she does not recognize him when he tries to rape her ... All this residential proximity turns the story into a news item about how two ladies got rid of a criminal neighbor...
Duggan's Lady for Ransom is told in the first person by an 11th century soldier-turned-monk who never raises his voice. In a Byzantine Empire setting in which rape and pillage were as common as piety, Author Duggan does not muster enough sex-and-sadism scenes to outfit a single chapter of many historicals. He simply tells a fine story full of color and action, informed with a sense of history as pervasive as it is unobtrusive. Professors trying to explain how the Turks were able to wallop the Christian armies of Byzantium could do much worse...
...gallery of portraits includes the affable murderer, a respected but degenerate lawyer, who kills and mutilates his 19-year-old maidservant; the murder suspect, an apelike beast, who is really as engaging as he is simple, although he did try to rape, of all people, the madam of the establishment at No. 15, Street of the Little Nuns; the police sergeant, who acts the cop but cannot understand why he has devoted 30 years of unflagging vigilance to maintaining order; the doctor, who thinks love is the source of everything but hates an entire family because the father seduced...
...withdrawing $50,000 in emergency funds from the State Treasury declaring that the community of Short Creek was engaging in "insurrection" against the state. Pyle was incensed by the multiple marriages and directed the state attorney-general to charge the polygamists with "Bigamy, Adultery, Open and Notorious Cohabitation, Statutory Rape, Contributing to the Delinquency of Minors, Income-Tax Evasion, Misuse of School Funds, Falsifying Public Records, and Conspiracy to Violate State Laws...
...happened during the first year of World War II, but the story of the Soviet rape of the Baltic states has never been fully and publicly told. Wisconsin's Republican Representative Charles Kersten, chairman of a special House investigating committee, last week began putting on the record one of the grisliest stories of this grisly century...