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...disastrous war with Prussia. The survivor's instinct could only have deepened as he saw his family cut down by firing squad and assassin: his younger brother Maximilian as Napoleon Ill's cat's paw in Mexico, his son Rudolf as a result of a crime passionnel suicide pact at Mayerling, his wife at Geneva, his nephew Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Viennese Waltz | 10/21/1974 | See Source »

Crime Does Not Pay is a film-within-a-film excursion into crime passionnel that pays off almost too generously with blood, plot and stars. After the 16th reel, so does the mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Four Bodings | 11/9/1962 | See Source »

...avidly, but with a practiced palate-it was, both in its profusion of corpses and in certain other characteristics, so very like London. Chicago had its quick rub-out with the .45 slug rubbed in garlic, New York its cement-festooned body in the East River, Paris its crime passionnel. But the sex sadist given to mutilation and multiple murders is a London specialty-there had been, for example, Jack the Ripper, the most storied of all, with at least six corpses in 1888; the Blackout Killer of 1942 (with four victims); the Vampire, who killed at least nine between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Strangler of Notting Hill | 4/6/1953 | See Source »

...drame politico-passlonnel. The principal characters: Subway Conductor Jean Laffargue, 41, his wife Yvonne, 37, and Rene ("Little Napoleon") Desvillettes, 47, mayor of the deep-Red Communist suburb of Champigny. All three were loyal Communists and diligent party workers. Trouble started when the politico got mixed up with the passionnel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Politico-Passion | 8/6/1951 | See Source »

Washington matrons avidly devoured each minute detail of this love-after-40 crime passionnel. It was as if a set of genteel Temple Bailey romancers had wandered by mistake into the raw youthful violence of a James M. Cain plot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: One of the Best | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

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