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Fatal (or Not!) Attraction
Permlink Replies: 300 - Pages: 21 [ Previous | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 | Next ] - Original Post: Mar 12, 2012 12:26 AM Original Post By: CarolAirey Threads: [ Previous | Next ]

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Re: Fatal (or Not!) Attraction
Posted: Sep 21, 2012 6:29 PM   in response to: CarolAirey in response to: CarolAirey
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I hadn't noticed the question before this- White Cargo ?

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Re: Fatal (or Not!) Attraction
Posted: Sep 21, 2012 6:10 PM   in response to: mr6666 in response to: mr6666
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Geez guys?!

last hint: "I am Tondalayo..."

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Re: Fatal (or Not!) Attraction
Posted: Sep 20, 2012 3:55 PM   in response to: mr6666 in response to: mr6666
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hint: don't mention "a-CLI-matize" to W.P.

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Re: Fatal (or Not!) Attraction
Posted: Sep 19, 2012 12:50 PM   in response to: mr6666 in response to: mr6666
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hint: seductive goldigger latches on to naive newcomer

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Re: Fatal (or Not!) Attraction
Posted: Sep 18, 2012 5:52 PM   in response to: flashback42 in response to: flashback42
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thanks for "Beefsteak..." clue, interesting reading

next:
new employee in foreign country is warned of effects new environment & culture may have on him.

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Re: Fatal (or Not!) Attraction
Posted: Sep 17, 2012 10:15 PM   in response to: mr6666 in response to: mr6666
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...all that and Janice Rule, too!

Sixes' thread.

BTW Sidebar: The historical "Beefsteak Raid" was commanded by Maj. Gen. Wade Hamption, CSA. In fiction, Gen Hampton was the commander of Charles Hamilton, the first Mr. Scarlett O'Hara. This is mentioned more in the novel than in the movie.

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Re: Fatal (or Not!) Attraction
Posted: Sep 17, 2012 8:09 PM   in response to: flashback42 in response to: flashback42
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"Alvarez Kelly" 1966, Holden & Widmark ?

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Re: Fatal (or Not!) Attraction
Posted: Sep 17, 2012 11:00 AM   in response to: flashback42 in response to: flashback42
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There is a scrap of history in support of this story. September 14-16, 1864: Confederate troops did in fact rustle a herd of cattle that was being taken to the Union troops ("the Beefstake Raid"). It prompted a comment by President Lincoln, something about the smoothest case of cow-stealing he had ever heard of.

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Re: Fatal (or Not!) Attraction
Posted: Sep 16, 2012 11:43 AM   in response to: flashback42 in response to: flashback42
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The one-eyed Colonel is bearing down hard on the cattleman who brought the herd east to divert the cattle to safe Confederate ground. He starts by cutting off the man's finger, and promising to remove more if he does not get his way.

The cattleman is also the woman's contact with the blockade runner when she gives up on the Colonel and decides to get out of the besieged city.

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Re: Fatal (or Not!) Attraction
Posted: Sep 15, 2012 9:51 AM   in response to: flashback42 in response to: flashback42
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The larger context of the story: A cattle herd brought from the West, headed for delivery to the Union Army. The Confederates set out to take the herd for themselves.

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Re: Fatal (or Not!) Attraction
Posted: Sep 13, 2012 6:50 AM   in response to: flashback42 in response to: flashback42
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The setting is a Confederate coastal city, under siege by Union troops. The woman decides to try to leave. Through an intermediary, she arranges to try to escape by sea, with the help of a blockade runner. She specifies that her personal servant will accompany her.

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Re: Fatal (or Not!) Attraction
Posted: Sep 12, 2012 7:43 AM   in response to: flashback42 in response to: flashback42
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The officer feels about the woman much the same as she feels about him. A soldier in wartime has to deal with the possibility of death, but he has a more fearful worry. -- Loss of his other eye, and the possibility of being a burden on her. She learns this when makes an offhand remark about "another grain of sand across my eyeball..." She despairs of having a future with him.

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Re: Fatal (or Not!) Attraction
Posted: Sep 11, 2012 7:00 PM   in response to: lavenderblue in response to: lavenderblue
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Thanks, rosie, I'll try this one:

Subplot, actually, of an action story set in the 1860s. A woman's love is focused on a Confederate officer who is stationed near her home, and is available. He is war-wounded (lost an eye), but still fit for combat and for command. He does not return her obvious overtures of affection. 1960s. Color.

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Re: Fatal (or Not!) Attraction
Posted: Sep 11, 2012 5:32 PM   in response to: CarolAirey in response to: CarolAirey
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It's not the one I was thinking about, but it fits. flash take the thread, I'll reuse the one I'm thinking about another time. :)

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Re: Fatal (or Not!) Attraction
Posted: Sep 11, 2012 5:20 PM   in response to: mr6666 in response to: mr6666
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Leave Her To Heaven

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