Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kariotis found himself in traditional Republican territory on the issue of drug abuse and criminal justice. "You're as soft as a grape on the crime issue," he told Dukakis, adding that "I don't want to hear any more of this moralistic baloney" against the death penalty, and that "for a guy who twice vetoed the death sentence for drug pushers, you don't understand how criminals think...
...There's a difference between talk and performance," Dukakis replied, citing his support for presumptive sentencing and the expansion of state prison space. He said the King administration, despite its rhetoric about tough criminal justice policies, had permitted the state's crime rate to "skyrocket...
Just a few decades ago, the whodunit formula demanded by both publishers and readers was compact -- and cozy: 180 pages of pure deduction and cardboard characters propped up in a long-gone rural England. Along with a handful of other contemporary crime writers including Dick Francis and Ruth Rendell, P.D. James, 66, has gracefully shattered the rules. In her best and most ambitious tale to date, A Taste for Death -- her ninth mystery novel in 24 years -- James has become a kind of Le Carre of crime, blending the calmer depths of mainstream fiction with the white rapids...
James, however, never lets character overwhelm crime. Dalgliesh and his Scotland Yard colleagues track the killer through the corridors of Whitehall, the hospital of a fashionable abortionist, a painfully trendy suburban restaurant. Among the suspects: the dead politician's vapid second wife, pregnant with his child even though she has had a lover for years; her con-man brother, who has moved into the politician's room; the victim's conniving mother, who mourns the loss of prewar manners more than the loss of her son. The politician himself is a mystery. Why, Dalgliesh wonders, did he suddenly resign...
Should it be a crime for her to smoke cigarettes? Should she leave the room if others do? What about drinking beer or diet soda or catching a cold because she callously decided to go outdoors without...