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  2. Death Wish (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Esther Benjamin – Paul's wife. Little is known about her except that she met Paul back in high school. She and her daughter are attacked in their apartment by three men, and Esther is beaten to death. Carol Benjamin Tobey – Paul and Esther's 23-year-old daughter and wife of lawyer Jack Tobey. After the beating from the muggers, her mental ...

  3. List of Latin words with English derivatives - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Latin words with derivatives in English (and other modern languages).. Ancient orthography did not distinguish between i and j or between u and v. [1] Many modern works distinguish u from v but not i from j.

  4. Don Watson - Wikipedia

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    Death Sentence, his book about the decay of public language, won the Australian Booksellers Association Book of the Year in 2008. [ 10 ] Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: A Portrait of Paul Keating PM published in 2002 was awarded both The Age Book of the Year and non-fiction Prizes, the Courier-Mail Book of the Year, the National Biography ...

  5. Death Sentence (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Paul was originally depicted in the novel as something of a pacifist weakling with no previous life experience dealing with issues of revenge or violence. Winner wanted Bronson for the role. Bronson noted that, given he was really known better as a customary Hollywood tough guy, he was ill-suited for the part, saying, "I was really a miscast ...

  6. Paul Vario - Wikipedia

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    Paul Vario (July 10, 1914 – May 3, 1988) was an American mobster and made man in the Lucchese crime family. Vario was a caporegime and had his own crew of mobsters in Brooklyn, New York . Following the testimony of Henry Hill , Vario was convicted in 1984, of fraud, and sentenced to four years in prison, followed by a conviction for extortion ...

  7. Patrick Dennis - Wikipedia

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    He based the character of Mame Dennis on his father's sister, Marion Tanner. [2] Tanner also wrote several novels under the pseudonym Virginia Rowans. "I write in the first person, but it is all fictional. The public assumes that what seems fictional is fact; so the way for me to be inventive is to seem factual but be fictional."

  8. The Sentence (2021 novel) - Wikipedia

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    The Sentence is a 2021 novel by American author Louise Erdrich. [ 1 ] Set in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the story concerns Tookie, an Indigenous woman who is haunted by Flora, a former customer at the bookstore where Tookie works.

  9. The Rack (1956 film) - Wikipedia

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    The Rack is a 1956 American war drama film, based on a television play written by Rod Serling. [2] [3] It was directed by Arnold Laven and stars Paul Newman, Wendell Corey, Anne Francis, Lee Marvin and Walter Pidgeon.