Word: scarlets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hollywood's dark-haired onetime sex symbol, doe-eyed Hedy Lamarr, claims that the book billed as her "autobiography," Ecstasy and Me, My Life as a Woman, is "an obscene, shocking, scandalous, naughty, wanton, fleshy, sensual, lecherous, lustful and scarlet" treatment of her life. So for the second time she slapped a libel suit on its publisher and two coauthors, whom she accuses of distorting interviews with her -this time for $21 million. Still no cigar. The New York Court of Appeals has dismissed the case-not because the book isn't obscene, shocking, scandalous, etc., but because...
...President was apparently responding to Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev's offer to Henry Kissinger. The Kissinger mission had been conducted with the usual successful secrecy. Like a contemporary Scarlet Pimpernel, the unpredictable foreign policy adviser had casually sauntered into a Georgetown salon one evening as if he did not have a care in the world. When the party was over, he jumped into a limousine and was driven to Andrews Air Force Base, where he took off for Moscow. Lodged in a spacious villa with an expansive view of the Moscow River and the city beyond, Kissinger spent...
Miss Hardwick notes that when Hawthorne wrote his great parable about men and women in America, The Scarlet Letter, in which Hester Prynne decides to make a lonely stand against Puritanism and hypocrisy, Mrs. Hawthorne read it and said that she liked it, but "it gave her a headache." In a sense, that is where we are still...
...most popular classes deal with the study of women in literature. At the State University of New York at Buffalo, students of Literary Attitudes Toward Women spend 15 weeks reading ten works, about equally divided between those sympathetic to women (The Scarlet Letter, Cymheline) and those that are hostile (Paradise Lost, Mailer's The American Dream...
Sherlock Holmes and the Scarlet Claw, or How to Round Off a Saturday Night. 11. Sat., Chan...