Word: vendettas
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...down at Princeton, talking with a friend who rows for them," Host recalls. "I was casually asking a few questions when the Princeton coach (Woody Fischer) came in, and, upon learning I was from Harvard, peremptorily evicted me from the boat house. I've got a personal vendetta to settle with them...
More troubles were to come for Puzo. He be came disgruntled because he had no final say on the picture. He was not allowed to view the finished cut when he wished to, and it was rumored that he had sworn - humorously, no doubt - a Sicilian vendetta against Paramount's Robert Evans...
WHEN Attorney General Bobby Kennedy won the conviction that sent Teamsters' boss Jimmy Hoffa to prison, many people wondered whether blind justice hadn't been waylaid in favor of a grudge. The word was that Kennedy had a vendetta and that it was selective justice that had put Hoffa away...
Boxer-like stance, jutting chin, sharply carved features, set on a square face make McCloskey's appearance every bit as vehement as his presidential thrust into New Hampshire--an impassioned vendetta against the Nixon Administration. "I am just tired of being lied to by members of the executive branch and having information concealed, and I think they have fallen into the habit of lying and not just to the people and the press, but to Congress...
...Torregreca, this division of the soul turned into art. In Vendetta of Silence, the writing is brilliant but fragmented-a composite of diaries (A.C.'s and Marco's), letters and tape recordings. It is as if the writer were walking around her subject in the fullness of her eloquence, in the fullness of her heart, trying to find the way in. The final punishment for San Basilic is not that its people are cut off from the rest of the world but that they are cut off from themselves. "Sympathy cannot penetrate real desperation," Miss Cornelisen writes. That...