Word: helene
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...another. Romantic German poets sang the love of their women to the point of distraction, but their heroines usually sounded remote and untouchable. Faust's demure Gretchen was touchable, all right-but he left her to go cavorting in the Devil's company with Helen of Troy...
...policewomen are members of a 140-strong task force of bobbies and detectives who are engaged in one of the biggest murder hunts in London's history. It started last week when the nude strangled body of brunette Helen Barthelemy, a stripper turned tart, was found in an alley close to the Thames at Brentford, miles from her Bayswater beat. She was the fourth prostitute to be killed since last November...
Questions typical of an interview are: "Imagine you are a voter registration worker. You knock on the door of a share-cropper's home and a 60-year-old Negro woman answers. You introduce yourself and she replies, 'Come in Mr. Jones, my name is Helen.' Now what would you do in this situation...
...early in 1962, Brooklyn Attorney James B. Donovan received a cablegram from Berlin which said only: HAPPY NEW YEAR HELEN. The message was a coded signal that set in motion one of the dramatic moments of the cold war-the exchange of U-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers for Russian Colonel Rudolph Ivanovich Abel, a top Soviet spy who had been imprisoned in the U.S. for the previous 4½ years. In this absorbing new book, Lawyer Donovan, the amateur diplomat who later negotiated the release of the Bay of Pigs prisoners, recounts the events leading up to the Berlin...
Director Guzzetti is fortunate in his minor characters, for their performances range from passable to very good. Ellery Akers plays Helen as an empty-headed Fanny Hill, rather than a regal queen whose face launches a thousand ships, and plays her well. David Evett's Menelaus is properly unctuous and opportunistic. And Michael Nach's frenetic sing-song servility as a Phyrigian slave introduces the comic tone which diminishes the tragedy of Orestes...