Word: bigamists
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...another reliable comedienne is Alix Elias, a tubby hooker who adopts the handle "Hot Coffee," since she serves steaming cups of the brew to her clients as a special bonus. Elias's humor stems from her lack of timing; at one point, she interrupts a heated confrontation between the bigamist trucker and his wives to announce her purchase of Vienna Roast beans...
...family. But within a few days of his death at his home in Pierre, the state capital, Martin's fellow employees found out to their astonishment from two lawyers inquiring about the estate that Martin was anything but a sedentary homebody: he was, it seems, a bold, longtime bigamist...
Byron's view prevailed. By tearing out passages from diaries and journals and 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...
...quite unlike the character with the big feet and the penguin walk, but for the most part his face is as alive, his movement as adroit, his spirit every bit as poignant as that of the wonderful little tramp. Yet there is a savage distinction: Verdoux is a multiple bigamist and mass murderer. He marries rich women, murders them, quickly counts his money, expertly disposes of the bodies...
...number of successful European women directors, but in the Hollywood scheme of things a woman director is still an oddity. Dorothy Arzner started making pictures in the 1930s (Craig's Wife, The Bride Wore Red), as did Ida Lupino in the 1950s (The Hitch-Hiker, The Bigamist), but they hardly began a trend. Stage and TV Director Francine Parker, a spokeswoman of the two-year-old Film Committee of Women for Equality in Media, charges that in movies, "if anyone has to choose between you and a man, any man, it will always be the man. You just...