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Your article on the murder of army Private Barry Winchell [NATION, Dec. 13] included a caption for a photograph of me that was misleading. I was referred to as "Winchell's cross-dressing friend." I was more than just a friend. I was Barry's lover and girlfriend. Also, a cross-dresser is generally thought to be a heterosexual male who wears women's clothes. I am a male-to-female transgendered person, meaning I feel mentally, emotionally and spiritually that I am a woman. CALPERNIA SARAH ADDAMS Nashville, Tenn...
HELLO, YOUNG LOVER What happens when Men of a Certain Age are drawn to women of a teen...
TRANSGRESSION Pleaded guilty to assault in September 1997 for biting an ex-lover...
...last two Ripley novels are slack, ungainly; Ripley is more prey than predator. But the first three (recently issued in a hardcover omnibus by Knopf/Everyman's Library) have the tone of high, dark comedy. Tom kills--Dickie, Dickie's pal Freddie Miles, an American art lover, a bunch of mafiosi--as much for the game of eluding capture as for motives of profit or survival. In Ripley's Game he gets an ailing man involved in a murder plot only because the man once spoke abruptly to Tom. Then, when the man desperately tries to kill a Mafia goon...
...Emperor and the Assassin, set in the 3rd century B.C., relates the struggle of Ying Zheng (Li) to unify China and become its first emperor. His aims are honorable, his methods increasingly brutal; he might be the prototype for Lenin or Mao. Ying sends his lover Lady Zhao (Gong) to her Han homeland. Her mission is to find a professional killer (Zhang, in a potent turn) to fake an assassination attempt, whose "failure" will make Ying seem invincible to his adversaries. But Ying grows more ruthless, and the lady and the killer fall in love. Now they will...