Word: confessionally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Private detectives hired by the magazine helped unmask Mrs. DeBoyer as the mastermind of the forgery and her daughter as the willing purveyor of the deceitful goods. Minor signed a statement that was not quite a confession, but near enough to close the case. Her mother had composed the letters...
Last Friday Dubberstein failed to appear for his arraignment in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va. Assuming he had fled, Judge Albert V. Bryan Jr. issued a warrant for his arrest. Dubberstein, however, had not turned fugitive. His body was found in his friend's apartment, where, investigators said...
The journey itself takes on epic proportions, though like most great Russian picaresques (such as Dead Souls) the distance traveled is insignificant and indeed pointless. His monologue, punctuated only by the names of train stations along the Moscow-Petushki line, lurches into and out of reality like a rusty zoom...
Perhaps it is Walter Mondale's fate that much of his recent life has been devoted to wiping out a public confession made nine years ago. As political farewells go, his was extraordinary. A man who set out to become President decided to toss it all and tell the...
On the long shelf of Koestler's work (six novels, 30 nonfiction books), no volume is as memorable or seems more likely to last. This searing tale of the Soviet Union's 1936-38 purge trials, and the gradual extraction of a false confession from an old revolutionary...