Word: hindley
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...hitting his stride. Wyler worked against the faintly ridiculous aspects of the plot. Fuest emphasizes them: the young bastard Heathcliff finds a soul mate in Cathy, who swears "I am Heath-cliff." Grown to wild manhood, he is thrust out of the ancestral digs, Wuthering Heights, by its owner Hindley. Cathy is pledged to another; Heathcliff goes abroad and returns a sudden gentleman of fortune. At the gaming table he wins most of the estate from the ruined Hindley, but too late. Cathy, doomed to die in childbirth, curses him. Within hours of her funeral, Heathcliff meets his own fate...
...could mistake the murderers, young Myra Hindley and Ian Brady, for Bonnie and Clyde; as rendered by Author Williams, they are closer to Jekyll and Hyde, complete with Victorian-melodrama makeup. Ian, 25, is the main figure, but wind him as he will, Williams cannot bring his manic mannequin to life...
Macabre Medley. On trial at Chester last April were Ian Brady, 28, a misanthropic store clerk whose only previous offenses had been housebreaking and burying cats alive, and Brady's blonde mistress, Esther Myra Hindley, 23, a wheyfaced, bouffant stenotypist. They were charged with slowly killing a ten-year-old girl and two boys, twelve and 17, by suffocation and ax blows, among other means. Two of the victims were buried naked in the bleak Manchester moors, where Myra posed smiling over the graves for Brady's camera; the third corpse was found by police in Brady...
...Brady's library. "There are some books that are not fit for all people," she says, "and some people who are not fit for all books." Literature, she believes, is a model demanding emulation; if the model is violence, violence follows. "Their interests," she says of Brady and Hindley, "were sadomasochistic, titillatory and sado-Fascist, and in the bookshops they found practically all the pabulum they needed...
...emotion when even the most harrowing details were being discussed?" The all-male jury deliberated two hours and 22 minutes before returning with verdicts that demanded the maximum sentence. Britain's historical maximum penalty-death by hanging -had been abolished by Parliament during the time Brady and Myra Hindley were in prison awaiting trial...