Word: womanizes
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Initially the three narrators are leading separate lives, yet it soon becomes clear that their three paths intersect through the events of a mysterious unsolved robbery and an elusive woman named Joan Rosen Klein. Each protagonist is searching for something related to both Ms. Klein and the crime, a search that carries them all down a communal path of violence, hatred, and destruction. Ellroy’s is a well-crafted foray into the dark-side of America, but the author’s attempt at absolute historic totality hinders the novels complete success. Ellroy’s desire...
...which people arrive at middle age and have to confront their mediocrity. Characters drift apart as they realize that they have not fulfilled their individual ambitions: the marriage between trophy wife Lindy Gardner and her fading American crooner husband unravels; the apprenticeship of a young Russian cellist under a woman who professes to be an accomplished musician dissolves; a struggling jazz musician, seeking notoriety, undergoes an unnecessary facelift and befriends Gardner while recovering from his surgery in a futile attempt to achieve celebrity...
Since Halloween is this weekend, do you know any creepy Harvard ghost stories? During the first snowfall, a mysterious woman appears in the Yard, looking for the body of her fiancé who died in a sleigh accident. They were both riding on the sleigh one icy, wintry night when it suddenly tipped over and the young man broke his neck and died. He was buried in a crypt, but someone discovered days later that the body was missing from the crypt...
...black coat that the young man was supposedly buried in. They put two and two together and figured that the homeless man had sold the body to the medical school (which was at Holden Chapel at that time) and kept the coat. During all this time, the young woman had been in seclusion. But when she learned of what happened she went to Holden Chapel to look for the remains of her fianc?...
However, all traces of the body were removed by then. So she went to Bedford and remained in seclusion. But during the first snowfall people see the ghost of this young woman walking through the Yard toward Holden Chapel in a long black mourning dress. There are never any footprints left where she treads, and it is said that she disappears as suddenly as she appears without leaving a trace...