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You see her beauty
But she aches of pain
You know of her innocence
But she's been blamed and betrayed
Tamed to depression
And cursed for their wicked ways
It's all staged
Ventriloquist to a puppet
Word-play on a story's page
Arrangements of her thoughts are unclear
Voices in the head, she still hears
It's been years
Damn . Tears of a clown
-Excerpt from Facade
BILL ABERNATHY's medical career and freedom are jeopardized when
his wife accuses him of raping her and their five-year-old
daughter. He hires hot-blooded trial attorney BEA ARCHIBALD to
fight for child custody and to defend him against the criminal
charges. Bea's lover and sounding board, Hugh Engle, a
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court judge, fills her in on a
long-time pimp for sitting judges. The pimp's former law partner,
Goldblatt, is a retired judge who's willing to sit as a master on
the divorce case, and is Bea's only hope of getting a fair judge.
She deposes those who are conspiring to prosecute Bill. As the
evidence stacks up, she hires experts: One to conduct a lie
detector test, both to give her some assurance of Bill's
truthfulness and to help her persuade the DA of his innocence;
another, a forensic psychologist, to administer a penile
plethysmograph to determine whether Bill is a pedophile; and a
third, to teach Goldblatt about memory development. Consumed by the
embers spreading from one worker to another in the corrupt
family-law industry, Bea risks her legal career by helping Bill
escape his smoldering tragedy and challenging a vitriolic judge
infamous for handing out the maximum sentence in rape cases.
You see her beauty
But she aches of pain
You know of her innocence
But she's been blamed and betrayed
Tamed to depression
And cursed for their wicked ways
It's all staged
Ventriloquist to a puppet
Word-play on a story's page
Arrangements of her thoughts are unclear
Voices in the head, she still hears
It's been years
Damn . Tears of a clown
-Excerpt from Facade
Filled with rich descriptions of Jewish life that spans several
centuries in this exotic culture, this ethnographic work is both
the story of all the Jews of Cochin, India, and the tale of one
woman. It contains historical legends and folktales, colorful
renditions of celebrations in Cochin, and translations of women's
songs from Malayalam, the language of the local Jews. It is also
Ruby's own memoir of her dramatic life in India. A woman of strong
and enviable character, she chose not the traditional path of
marriage, instead attending college and joining the Women's Royal
Indian Navy.
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