Word: talese
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Part of the answer lies in American society's love for lust and violence. As Mary Nemeth writes in the weekly Canadian news magazine, MacLean's, "...other countries have their lurid scandals. But for sheer volume and variety the American experience--amplified by a hype machine that marries the age...
Even more, the case fits into an almost satisfyingly easy moral mold; the dissipative Harding, the embittered loser in the last Olympiad, and the exalted Kerrigan, the winner, could just as easily be the Wicked Witch and Snow White. The public's fascination with the case is not unlike the...
Not all the new celebrity hucksters embrace their role so readily. Lansbury, the star of Murder, She Wrote, cites loftier goals for her promotion of a series of videotapes of Beatrix Potter stories. "Children today are denied the luxury of innocence in their childhood," she says. "I wanted to sell...
Changing sexual politics had indeed been one of the fig leaves used to discuss the case in polite company. How far can an abused wife go to protect herself? But John had been acquitted last November of marital rape. And last week the jury bought the tales of abuse and...
Skulduggery is Shawn Eckardt's passion. With no record of military service, Eckardt boasts that his skills include unconventional warfare, surveillance, psychological operations and something he calls the "Secret Service characteristics matrix for assassins." He claims to have worked as a counterintelligence specialist for a Swiss company 10 years ago...