Word: crime
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unclear exactly what the reasoning behind their proposal is, but I do know that it is not merely procedural," the woman assaulted by Douglas wrote. "It is possible, and seems likely, that they do not consider his crime worthy of dismissal. Under consideration is not whether he raped me (the Ad Board has already ruled that he did, in fact, rape me) but only what the punishment should...
Nearly a fortnight ago, literary star James Ellroy came to town on a promotional tour for his new book, Crime Wave. The Wednesday before his gig at MIT, he appeared on Late Night With Conan O'Brien. Barely alighted on the hotseat, he announced, with appropriate finger gestures, that the President is hung like a cashew. The Crimson immediately pulled strings and waxed plaintive to get a one-on-one with the celebrated word-wrestler who delivered such literary punches as The Black Dahlia, American Tabloid and L.A. Confidential. Armed for the interview with nonsense and irreverence, The Crimson...
...year of the rat in Chinese astrology. And I am not being disingenuous here, but if I were born in Montana or Delaware, then I suspect if whatever happened to me happened to me, and I grew up where I grew up, then I would write crime novels about those places. Simply put, I am from L.A. It exerts a hold on me, but it's an influence that I've sought consciously to move beyond....I will forever be associated with L.A., but aside from the occasional journalistic piece about L.A., and aside from satirical, parodistic short fiction about...
...Crime to me, dark social history, ebb andflow of dark events, the near psychopathic,semi-psychopathic, the leg-breakers of history area voice for me to express my moral concernsbecause these are men who paid morally for theirdark deeds. I am first and last and always amoralist. They are the means for me to recreatehistory to my own specifications, but I am notthem.There is a definite distinction betweenmost writers and their work. Because the work is,in the end, as it is in my case, a work ofimagination, with the exception of thenon-fiction...
...CRIME OF SHEILA MCGOUGH by Janet Malcolm Alfred A. Knopf $22, 176pp. JARED WHITE CRIMSON STAFF WRITER...