Word: womanizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only indication of what slavery might have been like was an overweight woman, whose job it was to swelter next to an authentic kitchen house fire, hanging out the door to cool herself on a 100 degree...
...praised when it was first published in 1942, sales were not high, and after a few short stories based on her experiences, Markham gave up writing. Author Mary S. Lovell hotfooted it to Nairobi after reading the republished memoir and found a tall, striking and still outrageous old woman. Markham (who died last year at 83) waved away questions she thought unimportant, but her conversations gave Lovell the basis for an extraordinary story...
...writing, chronology shows that the work could not have been his. Her third husband, a failed writer named Raoul Schumacher, did some useful editing, but despite embittered statements he made after their breakup, most of her book was written before they met. She was her own writer, her own woman and a force of nature still remembered with awe in East Africa. "I don't think Beryl ever thought how her behavior must have appeared to the people of the real world," a friend once said, "and if she had thought, she would have said it was stupid and would...
FILMS GLORIFYING the criminal element seem to be quite the rage today. The great success of The Godfather, Prizzi's Honor and now Family Business attest to the popularity of these people we wouldn't want as neighbors. An affair with a woman and plagiarized speeches may be enough to bring down presidential candidates but murder, burglary and treachery only increase our enjoyment of a film...
...other Costa-Gavras films, including a recent and little-known picture about an American woman who is sucked into spying for Israeli intelligence yet who thinks she is in love with a handsome Palestinian, lack both political insight and quality. Unfortunately, Costa-Gavras is no Cocteau and does not succeed in being a jack of all trades...