Word: confessionally
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"Ehm... actually it was in a warehouse... I moved stuff." Having made my confession I slink off into exile, leaving them looking like a bunch of children who have just learned their grandmother is a transvestite."
The Soviet woman's tale of woe directly contradicts a confession she made last June implicating Miller in a plot to pass FBI documents to the Soviets in exchange for promises of $65,000. Ogorodnikova, 36, is serving an 18-year sentence for espionage.
Even if Linda Elizabeth never responds, she is indirectly responsible for a powerfully evocative volume that gives dimension to the questions haunting every child deprived of his genealogy. It is part confession, part portrait of Britain, with its intimidating social strata, its cloaked poverty and strained respectability. And it is...
In a sandbox, a six-year-old boy is attacked by a playmate wielding a toy rake. The child retaliates with a toy hoe, hacking his assailant to death. Nearly a half-century later, while seeing his son off to summer camp, the killer, grown to uneasy manhood, is accidentally...
Charm, ingratiation and candid confession of past sins are also part of the persuasive skills of the title character in Mrs. Warren's Profession, a woman who has everything she wants except the respect of her newly adult daughter. Born in poverty but blessed with good looks and a raffish...