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Despite these flaws the play's ornate, Gothic-novel quality makes it fully enjoyable. It twists down the dark tunnels of crime with the special mock-seriousness that delights every mystery lover, exploiting all the best conventions on its way. In the best moments I was convinced every door hid a secret corpse, and that every goodness contained a little folly...

Author: By Gilbert B. Kaplan, | Title: The Macabre Annals of Crime | 12/19/1972 | See Source »

During the talks which began on December 4, North Vietnam revoked its agreement of two weeks earlier on the guarantee of South Vietnam's sovereignty, Kissinger said. In the recent talks, the North Vietnamese hid their disagreements on many issues "in the guise of linguistic changes," the presidential adviser said...

Author: By James D. Blum, | Title: Kissinger Discloses Snag In Vietnam Peace Talks | 12/18/1972 | See Source »

...sentence for the killing of Kitty Genovese, the New York girl whose death in 1964 became celebrated because her screams for help were ignored by at least 38 neighbors. In 1968, while out of prison briefly for minor surgery in a Buffalo hospital, Moseley escaped from his guards and hid in a vacant house Neighbors telephoned Mr. and Mrs Matthew Kulaga, relatives of the owner, who came to investigate. Moseley captured the couple at gunpoint, raped Mrs. Kulaga and beat up her husband. Moseley was subsequently recaptured. The Kulagas sued-not Moseley, who hardly has assets to pay damages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Decisions | 11/20/1972 | See Source »

...while. It's like the third baby compared with the first." In Russia, Pat displayed what was for her an almost Eloise streak. Wanting to witness the signing of the SALT agreement, yet not formally invited to take part in the ceremony, she hid from the press while watching from behind a massive column. In China, she even managed to trick a newsman into eating the same fiery delicacy that she dispatched with a flick of her chopsticks and a bat of her eyelashes. She left the man gasping for water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: Those Other Campaigners, Pat and Eleanor | 10/9/1972 | See Source »

...showed a Union Jack dripping blood on a skull and crossbones. A small table was piled with ammo clips, a Sten gun and World War II carbines. Young men, few of them above high school age, kept passing through the room during the next hour. They received their instructions, hid pistols under their belts at the small of their backs, and disappeared again through a backyard littered with hijacked cars in various states of disrepair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: The War of the Flea | 7/31/1972 | See Source »

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