Word: scoundrel
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Beverly & Vidal Sassoon (6) 6-Scoundrel Time, Hellman (4) 7-The Russians, Smith (8) 8 -Spandau, Speer(7) 9-The People 's Almanac...
...DESCRIPTION of a thing, or a person, as a "scoundrel" is a word most often used in anger. It is an epithet hurled, stronger for its restraint and contradictory in its mildness, bolder than any sort of effluent obscenity...
...gift." Through An Unfinished Woman and Pentimento, Hellman patched together the fabric of her life, revealing stories in the latter book she had not been able to bring herself to tell in the former. In both books she only touched on the period of the early 1950's. In Scoundrel Time, however, she concentrates on that era, exploring the wide range of her memories of times now remembered as the McCarthy...
...Scoundrel Time is far from such a book. It rambles, jumps around in time, from Washington to Spain to upstate New York. Hellman intersperses her stories of lawyers and committee rooms with anecdotes about clothes and cabdrivers and manure and stage-hands pouring bourbon down her throat. The stories are exquisite in and of themselves because Hellman has a sharp memory for detail and is a master storyteller. But because the stories break up the passage of events in her book, they destroy the buildup of dramatic tension. Hellman's last segment begins with the words "Nothing more...
...Sassoon 9-Scoundrel Time, Hellman 10-The Adams Chronicles...