Word: murder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HEAT OF THE NIGHT. In Mississippi, two policemen, one a Negro (Sidney Poitier), the other a white man (Rod Steiger), join forces to solve a murder in this subtle and meticulous study that breaks with the black-white stereotype...
Bonnie and Clyde. Bang bang! go the guns, and the bank guard falls dead, his face oozing ketchup from every pore. Twang twang! goes the banjo, and Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker ride off in a stolen flivver for further merriment, murder and mayhem...
Though the Normans were experts at "piracy, perjury, robbery, rape, blackmail and murder," as Norwich puts it, they were also uncommonly gentle conquerors. In all of their exploits, they proved less interested in imposing their own customs on their captives than in adopting the ways-not to mention the possessions-of those they had subdued. Little more than a century's residence in France sufficed to erase the maritime traditions of what was once a seagoing Viking people. In Norman Sicily, says Norwich, the victors "created a climate of enlightened political and religious thinking in which all races, creeds...
Hard Luck. Massie, a Rhodes scholar and freelance journalist, will probably distress academic historians by his abstention from heavy ideological expositions-and by his brisk prose. His plain thesis is that the murder of Nicholas and Alexandra put the seal of irrevocability on the Bolsheviks' successful putsch against the infant Kerensky government. Both events are traced more to Nicholas' hard luck than to any concatenation of inevitable historical forces-a Marxist theory that 50 years of propaganda have almost conned the West into accepting...
...MURDER IN CANTON by Robert van Gulik. 206 pages. Scribner...