Word: confessionally
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The film version of the play, produced in Hollywood for $200,000, is relentlessly funny, shaggy, shocking. A revolution is raging as the picture begins. Society is collapsing, but prostitution is undisturbed. "Sometimes as a theater, sometimes as a church." the Madam (Shelley Winters) proclaims, "this house will always be...
smiling back of the garbage truck as the complex city passes to the confession or psychiatric couch or both He wrote of the poor and sick and dirty, and in Paterson, his masterpiece, he achieved a Whitmanesque vision of the American myth as he told of the city's...
Confession v. Alibi. When the details of the confession checked out in Portsmouth, Loughan was charged with murder. "I felt confident that I could not lose the case even if I conducted it standing on my head," recalls Joshua David Casswell, who was the prosecutor in the court proceedings that...
Then began the hunt. From witnesses, artists drew a composite picture of the robber. Eight months after the robbery, police finally nabbed a prime suspect: a 57-year-old professional painter named Sadamichi Hirasawa. Hirasawa first admitted his guilt, then retracted the confession. He was tried, convicted, and sentenced to...
The judge might have a point. Hirasawa insisted that the repudiated confession was extracted from him by torture in a brutal nonstop interrogation; later, the painter's two sons-in-law claimed that he was playing cards with them at the time of the robbery. Only two of the...