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...India's rebellious "Bandit Queen," a vigilante turned lawmaker revered by the poor as a defender of the lower castes; when three masked men gunned her down as she stepped out of her car; in New Delhi. Devi's gun-slinging, horseback-riding Robin Hood antics drew many ardent fans and equally ardent foes. In 1996 the former voted her into Parliament...
...through a haunted house, myself as a skinny kid riding at breakneck speed through a heritage of bad dreams, my wildly careering, breakaway energies slamming against seemingly interminable captivity in the hands of my parents' obsessions, parents' errors, parents' judgments.... and in the hands, as well, of my own ardent and melodramatic ignorance of the world, and of what I was, or might be. Anyone who would sentimentalize adolescence either is a fraud or has a bad memory...
...Rescue, which Castro considers a threatening paramilitary cell, and, as part of his front, sought a spouse. He chose Martinez, whom he met in a Bible-study group at his aunt's Baptist church. Says Martinez: "I was perfect for him because I was politically naive." Roque started an ardent courtship and, say court documents, in his secret communiques to Havana referred to Martinez as "the Merry Widow...
...Whoopi Goldberg vehicle called "The Telephone" (1988) -- had Southern's name attached to it. He was rumored to have "lost it," alcohol and drugs having blunted his satiric edge. When mentioned at all, his name was preceded by the amiable but career-killing sobriquet "swinging' sixties icon." Though his ardent admirers continued to stress the ways in which his best work continued to inspire later generations of humorists and screenwriters, the question remained: What the hell was Terry Southern doing all those years...
...over the next two decades, his liberal democratic roots gradually turned into ardent anti-war activism...