Word: blameless
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...World War II broke out in Europe, Foujita fled back to Japan only to find more of it. There he did military paintings from photographs. After Japan's defeat, his samurai cousins, a marshal and a count, were held to be war criminals; but the artist was found blameless, and he rushed back to Paris. He is still exuberant, worked ten hours a day on his Reims chapel for the champagne growers. But he did not indulge in their product. Says he dryly: "I never touch a drop of alcohol...
Meanwhile, everything is a sadistic voyeur's fun fair. The reader, like the characters, should be in stitches as the jolly Gallic authors follow the criminal careers of the separate members of the subdivided victim, grafted as they are onto blameless citizens. As for the anomalous occurrences in the bedroom, no mind need boggle. The upshot of this gruesome farce is that the head of the condemned criminal contrives to commit several posthumous murders...
...riding around with a sawed-off shotgun in his car. Stopped by the cops in Hueytown, near Birmingham, Wilkins pleaded guilty to violating a 1934 federal law designed to curb gangsters, which requires registration of such weapons. After a not-too-inquiring probation officer reported that he had a blameless character and Birmingham Federal Judge Clarence Allgood himself decided that Collie's mother "is a real good woman...
...that the Paar family, trailing minions, visited over the past few years. The writing has the flickering quality of home movies, for which John Reddy, the Reader's Digest staff writer and Paar pal who polishes the maestro's prose, must be held accountable. Paar himself is blameless...
...Turkish Cypriots are hardly blameless. On occasion they advance their lines by digging new trenches, thus prompting the Greeks to retaliate with new earthworks of their own, bringing both sides dangerously close together. Last January, heavy rains caused the collapse of part of Nicosia's 16th century battlements, exposing a 150-ft. tunnel built inside the wall that would have given the Turkish Cypriots a commanding position for firing across the so-called Green Line that divides Turks from Greeks...