Word: malefactress
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From her mischievous and misleading title to her topsy-turvy feminism - "I say women are as innately evil and grasping or selfish as men and fully as criminal. They have a right to equal suspicion," says one malefactress - Cornelisen shares both the conspirators' secrets and their seditious high spirits. But she refuses to let them get away clean. After the caper, the culprits are unsettled not by their guilt or greed but, more fittingly, by their insouciance and sprightly intelligence. And in the end they begin to suspect that inefficiency may, after all, be Italy's greatest charm...
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