Word: scoundrel
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...public image she had laboriously fashioned for herself. Biographical details had been eliminated, anecdotes shellacked, letters burned--many of them after she had extracted them from their recipients. As America's most prominent woman playwright (The Children's Hour, The Little Foxes) and the author of various memoirs (Pentimento, Scoundrel Time), Hellman wanted the record closed, and on her terms...
...WELL THAT ENDS WELL, OR so the saying goes. At the end of this Shakespeare play, the girl gets the boy of her dreams, the boy is pardoned by his wealthy mother and patron king, and the ratty scoundrel becomes the dearest friend of his former foe. Sounds quite well, doesn...
Unfortunately, it is hard to feel entirely joyous at the turn of events. At the end, the girl is still unloved, the boy still feels threatened by his elders and scoundrel is still a scoundrel. You can't derive much satisfaction from such an ambivalent conclusion...
...recalled how the father of Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.), a prosecutor in Edgefield, S.C., shot and killed a traveling salesperson who called him a liar and a scoundrel...
...placed the fugitive American financier under arrest, Vesco was little more than a cipher, a relic from an earlier generation, recalled in vague outline for his criminal odyssey around the Caribbean and for a broad range of roles -- millionaire, gambler, stock cheat, illegal campaign contributor, Watergate shadow, drug dealer, scoundrel. He was, for archaeologists of roguery, the fossil evidence that money can buy power and immunity from the reach of the law. Now, suddenly and surprisingly, he was back in the news. But last week Robert Vesco became not a player but a pawn. Havana, which had provided him rich...