Word: murderously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During the unladylike squabble for Fox's fortune, Susan Hayward suddenly expires, felled by an overdose of Seconal. Abruptly, the spirited comedy becomes a murder mystery, with blind clues pointing to everyone. Not until the closing moments, when Fox himself dies, is the mystery slickly solved. Harrison wryly narrates the ironic finale from the grave, pointing out the parallels and discrepancies between Jonson's play and the film...
...PLAYHOUSE (shown on Fridays). Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky's tale of murder and eventual reckoning, starring David Collins and Patricia Hayes...
...story about you in every paper anyone picks up. This will help to convince people that what you are saying is important. A sample approach: pick out a prosecution witness and attack him. For instance, the venerable medical examiner who gave damaging testimony as to how the murder victim died. Say that the way he runs his office is "a scandal." There may be phrases of his that you can turn to your own use, like: "I have dealt with the greatest defense lawyers in the world, but I have never met anyone in the legal profession like...
...Washington's Catholic University of America from 1949 to 1957 and one of the nation's leading interpreters of moral theology, who never hesitated to articulate his often controversial views, be it on the World War II atomic bombing of Japan ("from an ethical standpoint-simply murder"), court-ordered sterilization ("totalitarian, unAmerican, and irreligious"), or smoking (one pack a day is all right, two packs is a sin); of heart disease; in Washington...
With this mistaken-identity murder, the novel ceases to be girl talk, and it is over before anyone really notices it. If there is a moral in this, and there probably is not, it is that old aphorism to the effect that women may be pretty choosy about whom they sleep with but will marry practically anyone...