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...paradigm? Diana, Princess of Wales. Last week's jilted bride, Nicole Contos, followed the essential outlines of Diana's example. The script: 1)The man (Prince Charles, or Tasos Michael) is a rotten, unfeeling, abusive cad, and inflicts a humiliation upon a naive and innocently hopeful young woman. 2)Instead of a Havisham withdrawal, however, the young woman goes vividly public with her trauma and plays the story out in the media, turning her shame not only into triumph but into revenge. Thus Nicole paraded her drama all over national television last week. Broken dreams make you a star...
...watch Grier's blaxploitation flicks, you can see what Tarantino may have seen in her (MGM is re-releasing both Coffy and Foxy Brown on video, rechristening them "Soul Cinema"). In her most popular films, Grier played a strong woman out for revenge. "This is the end of your rotten life, you motherf___ing dope pusher," she cries in Coffy before blowing a dealer's head off. Grier was a woman of action well before Thelma met Louise, or Ripley encountered aliens. In 1975 Ms. magazine put her on its cover. She was also a sex symbol at a time...
That was nothing new. The Iraqis have been cheating outrageously on the truce agreement that ended the war in 1991. They have hidden documents, moved missiles and machines, thwarted the inspectors with everything from rifle shots in the air to a fusillade of rotten vegetables. In spite of all that, the weapons experts have compiled a record of real achievement over the years. They have essentially dismantled Iraq's nuclear- weapons industry and accounted for the great majority of its Scud missiles. They have uncovered vast stocks of chemical agents and have been trying hard to find Saddam's germ...
...Connor's father had been an antique-weapon collector; his mother painted and wrote poetry; and Connor, who already had a cherished collection of Japanese swords, had truly found his niche. But he kept slipping up. In July 1990 a federal judge who doubled the requested sentence called Connor "rotten to the core" and a "menace" and told him, "We don't need you, and we are society...
...energetic writer, however, this has always seemed a woeful waste of criminal talent. For some three decades Donald E. Westlake has operated a kind of literary halfway house for the morally rotten, propping up an entire repertory company of safecrackers, bank robbers, funny-money artists and miscellaneous boodlers after their inevitable job-related mishaps and sending them forth to steal again in novel after novel. His best-known wrongdoer is an amusing burglar named Dortmunder, whose fumble-thumbed approach to grand larceny is that of a tax accountant trying to bolt together a backyard barbecue. The unstated, slyly effective joke...