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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...theoretical blueprint of the play is sabotaged by shoddy acting in several key roles. The chief blame rests with D'Aquila, whose mannish, histrionic performance never musters an ounce of sympathy. Her love affair with Alsemero (Harry S. Murphy) is discarded too early; and she changes into an evil murderess with only the slightest provocation, gushing at one point, "I am forced to love thee now for thou provides so well for mine honor...

Author: By Ari Z. Posner, | Title: More of The Same Thing With ART's 'Changeling' | 12/5/1985 | See Source »

...widow of General Reinaldo Pérez-Vega. My husband's throat was not slashed as you say. He was tortured for hours until he died, an act in which Astorga was an active participant. She is a murderess. Her nomination as the ambassador from Nicaragua is evidence of the type of leaders that form the Communist Sandinista government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 30, 1984 | 4/30/1984 | See Source »

...Christine, who has the body of a '58 Plymouth Fury but the mind of a Victorian murderess. At birth, on the Chrysler assembly line, she mysteriously killed a mechanic who dared to drop cigar ash on her upholstery. (Alfred Hitchcock once tried, unsuccessfully, to work a scene like this into a movie; now the trick has been solved.) Two decades later, Arnie Cunningham (Keith Gordon), nerd of high school nerds, owns Christine-and is possessed by her. In a trice this four-eyed Faust is transformed into a cool dude with clear skin, wrap-around shades, slick black hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Season's Bleedings in Tinseltown | 12/19/1983 | See Source »

...Diet Doc" Herman Tarnower Moreover, because it follows extensive media coverage of the affair, it is disappointing that Alexander adds so little new. While the amount of journalistic detail she has amassed is impressive, her prose style often flounder and she colors her commentary with a maudlin sympathy for murderess Jean Harris, a woman who, in her words, "reminds...

Author: By Sophie A. Volpp, | Title: Behind the Lady Killer | 4/12/1983 | See Source »

Unless Harris' lawyers are able to win an appeal or the Governor grants her clemency after she serves half her time, Bedford Hills could be the murderess's home for the next 15 years (the minimum sentence for her crime). By then she will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Way to Treat a Lady | 3/9/1981 | See Source »

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