Word: killingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Seine to the wrong side of the Rhone, where an impassioned Lyonnaise beauty (Simone Signoret), bored with an inadequate husband, meets "un homme, un vrai" in the form of an Italian truck driver (Raf Vallone). The lovers do not plot the husband's death, but they kill him anyway. After that, accidents keep following each other as if in mockery of Zola's thesis that the punishment must sprout from the seed of the crime...
...believes that the world owes him a loving. Dave is a World War II veteran and the author of two minor novels. He has been AWOL from his typewriter for seven years, and Choctaw rather than English would appear to be his first language. Sample: "A person could actually kill themselves that way." On an alcoholic whim, Dave returns in 1947 to Parkman. Ill., the hick home town he had deserted 19 years earlier in flight from a paternity charge lodged against him by a hay-prone hoyden. Parkman is Peyton Place transplanted, with more skeletons than it has closets...
There is more than one way to kill a cat. The grimalkin of racial prejudice may choke on warm milk as easily as succumb to a brickbat. Unfortunately the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination seems to believe it has, in the Fair Educational Practices Act, the only weapon which can banish the beast. In ordering Harvard to stop requesting photographs with freshman application forms, it serves the letter, but not the ultimate purpose, of the law it seeks to enforce...
...album entitled Mac-Kac and His French Rock & Roll. The familiar beat is there, but the lyrics provide a startling illustration of just how differently they order these things in France. Sample: "The Father Superior with haggard eye and gnashing teeth left the refectory screaming: 'I'll kill the bum who drank all my Communion wine.' He had the tocsin tolled, but nobody found the drunk...
Meeting in Los Angeles last week, regents of the University of California took exactly two minutes to kill the 42-year-old Pacific Coast Conference. Angered because the conference turned down their request to police their own athletic recruiters and paymasters and organize their own football schedules, the universities at Berkeley and Los Angeles decided to i) suffer through their penalties for past sins and 2) quit the P.C.C. on June 30, 1959. Other conference schools immediately began to talk of resigning. Faced with the probable dissolution of the P.C.C., the Tournament of Roses Committee may soon make new arrangements...