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...past 100 years, the women clearly have. In The Stir Outside the Café Royal (1898), demure Miss Van Snoop captures a notorious murderer and then weeps for 30 minutes. Observes the author: "She had earned the luxury of hysterics." Not so Jerry Wheeler, an ex-stripper who, in Angel Face (1937), is all hobnails, barbed wire and mean mouth. About one criminal, she says in her characteristic tone: "[He] had a face like one of those cobblestones they dug up off Eighth Avenue when they removed the trolley tracks." You've come a long way, baby...
...keeping the lid on their less savory memories, Shelley's intimates created a marzipan myth to be consumed in Victorian parlors. The poet, so the story went, was only nominally a seducer, de facto bigamist and flaming revolutionary. In reality he was, as Matthew Arnold wrote, "an ineffectual angel...
...invasion force to overthrow and kill Trujillo. But the Dominicans decided that the mission would be suicidal and backed out. In 1961, the CIA turned over three fast-firing M-l carbines and 500 rounds of ammunition concealed in a box of groceries to an intermediary for delivery to Angel Severo Cabral, a member of a group of right-wing Dominicans who were plotting against Trujillo. They apparently had expected more extensive material help from the CIA. When Cabral saw the rifles, he angrily declared: "This is the pyramid of arms, the arsenal we were promised that wouldn...
...There appears to be little that James Levine, 31, cannot do, except perhaps play Scott Joplin on the tuba. The remarkable new music director of the Metropolitan Opera already has several superlative operatic recordings to his credit (notably / Vespri Siciliani on RCA and Joan of Arc on Angel). This version of Mahler's Fourth, a genial pastoral masterpiece, has a flowing line rarely matched in current interpretations and an intimacy that, comes close to Bruno Walter's incomparable recording of the 1940s. The formidable Chicago Symphony sounds somewhat more relaxed than it often does under its regular leader...
...Parsons was already a star of longhair country, who was stretching folk material across thudding rock rhythms. Emmylou had a gift for penetrating to the heart of a lyric. Parsons taught her to sing honky-tonk ballads like his Sin City, and soon invited her to Los Angeles to do back-up harmonies for his albums (GP and Grievous Angel). When Parsons died in 1973, she was personally and professionally devastated. "Gram turned me on to root country, to George Jones with his East Texas twang," she says. "I still try to learn Gram's songs and copy...