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...write it she did-reams of it, in relentless iambic pentameter. It was dourly didactic, endlessly hortatory: "Come, come, I'll show unto thy sense,/ Industry hath its recompense." Some of it was inadvertently funny: "Was ever gem so rich found in thy trunk/ As Egypt's wanton Cleopatra drunk?" Yet when her work was published in London in 1650 as The Tenth Muse, Lately Sprung Up In America, it became one of the "most vendible books in England," and when its author died in 1672 her eulogist said: "Time will a poet raise/Born under better Stars, shall...
...size of the award was largely due to the jury's finding of "willful and wanton" misconduct by Drackett. One of the most chemically active products made for the home, Drāno produces hydrogen gas and generates heat of 212° to melt or otherwise destroy materials clogging a drain; all it takes to start it sizzling is contact with water. Mrs. Moore's lawyer contended that moisture had somehow got into the can, and that the company was aware that this could happen. Its quality-control department, he said, had noted "that the material itself...
...which the predators are the continent's white and black citizens and the victim is Africa itself. Film Makers Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi (Mondo Cane) have assembled a grand guignol of atrocity scenes, strung together with a booming narration and a melodramatic score. Among them: the wanton slaughter of herds of hippopotamuses, zebras, elephants and other wildlife; the execution by a black and white firing squad of black Congolese rebels; mound of 54 amputated hands, the ghastly souvenir of Bahutu reprisals against their Watutsi neighbors...
...student ratio and special tutorial help. Outraged that it was not fully integrated, Negro neighborhood leaders ordered a boycott, kept it closed for five days, demanded that the board provide an all-Negro teaching staff. Since then, unruly students have reflected their parents' pique by disrupting classes, committing wanton acts of vandalism. This month, the embattled white principal, Stanley R. Lisser, quit to take a better-paying job in educational research...
...Hans the Ripper who murders and mutilates a prostitute. After the three comes Major Grau (Omar Sharif), an intelligence officer whose magnificent obsession is justice. Outranked by the generals and outflanked by the Allies, he is determined that in the midst of the war's mass murders the wanton killing of one innocent woman shall not go unpunished. Grau at last traps the murderer (Peter O'Toole), only to be killed himself. True justice does not come until long after the war, when the guilty general is confronted with the evidence and shoots himself...