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...Wyeth-Webster house at 22 Garden Street has a particularly gruesome history. Its owner was John White Webster, a Harvard chemistry professor who killed and burned the body of his colleague George Parkman...
...member of the historical commission said that crowds usually throng outside this house during Webster's long and highly-publicized trial...
Toward the end of the book, Atwood finds the spectre of death looming ever closer, though without the hope of salvation such as Mary Webster's. Part four is a series of poems written for a dying parent. In one scene, a woman tries to remember her father through a series of dream images, each proving elusive and unsatisfactory. In another scene, Shakespearean tragedy undergoes a reversal that is anything but, as a Lear figure finds himself watching terrible television in nursing home...
...Beeban Kidron's directorial thumbs, it becomes schlock. In the spirit of drag and "gay humor," Kidron tried to camp up the movie, and instead made it forced and silly. Catering to straight middle America, Kidron turns drag queens into freaks and drag shows into freak shows. The Webster Hall drag contest at the beginning of the movie was reminiscent of Jabba the Hut's palace from "Return of the Jedi...
...These indictments may have little or nothing to do withWhitewater," saysTIME's James Carneyof the 48-page indictment that charges Bill Clinton's former business partner James McDougal, his wife Susan, and Arkansas governor Jim Guy Tucker with bank fraud and numerous other crimes. "Webster Hubbell was indicted, and it was shown that the Clintons had nothing to do with his crime. It is not clear that this involves the Clintons at all," says Carney. " Still, it certainly isn't good news for the Clintons...