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...That gave him the makings, and suddenly he had a motive. "I had to get out of New York City," he says in Mike Hammer's Mickey Spillane. "I couldn't stand that place." So he moved up to Newburgh and, when told a home he wanted to build would cost $1,000, speed-wrote I, the Jury. The hardback version, published by E.P. Dutton, sold OK, nothing special, about 20,000 copies. But when issued in paperback in late 1948, the book stoked a furor. (The year's other literary sensation that year was Spillane's polar opposite...
Clearly, the usher was right: the only sweet and easy parts of the play were the M&Ms from the concession stand. “The Maids” might not have made my day easier, but it closed Burkle’s directorial career at Harvard on a high note. As in any existentialist voyage, the bumps in the road make the trip worth it: the maids’ games are a ticket to the darkest corners of the soul’s cage...
...advice. Rather than suggesting I pack first-aid however, my friends and family transformed themselves into my self-appointed style experts. “Try and dress nice,” they cautioned, all raised eyebrows and knowing looks. “You don’t want to stand out as an American. Italians are more fashionable.” True, most Americans dream of glimpsing the mere dregs of the glamour this country emanates. Italy, typically considered the hub of the fashion world, shamelessly worships its designers—Gucci, Armani, and Dolce & Gabanna. Those textile wizards labor...
...cried out, "Hussein! Hussein!" in a long, shrill lament. She held her head in her hands and began to pull at her hijab while screaming out her brother's name. A young man tried to help Hussein's sister to her feet, but she couldn't bear to stand. Small children began to cry, and one little girl had a purple star sticker affixed to her forehead, a jarring symbol of childhood pasted over more grief than she should have to experience at such a tender...
...with the success of the Fischer prosecution, Arizona and Utah authorities hope that other polygamy-abuse cases in the pipeline can be tried without victim testimony, including seven other men from the FLDS community scheduled to stand trial. This is the largest group to be prosecuted for crimes related to their polygamist lifestyle since the 1950s...