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‘After trapeze artist-turned-poodle trainer Gerard Soules was stabbed to death in a Las Vegas trailer park in 1992, prosecutors charged his onetime fling, Fred Steese, with murder.’

SOS says: Good opening sentence.

Margaret Soltan, May 26, 2017 9:08AM
Posted in: Scathing Online Schoolmarm

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6 Responses to “‘After trapeze artist-turned-poodle trainer Gerard Soules was stabbed to death in a Las Vegas trailer park in 1992, prosecutors charged his onetime fling, Fred Steese, with murder.’”

  1. Bill R Says:

    I read once that the greatest headline ever written was

    “Sex Slayer Bares Lover Diary”

    Every word has “punch”

  2. dmf Says:

    http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/95-theses-principles-and-practice-poetry

  3. Margaret Soltan Says:

    Bill R: That’s a good one. A lot of people like Headless Body in Topless Bar. Not every word has punch, but the whole effect is good.

  4. Bill R Says:

    A classic! That would be hard to, er, top.

  5. Matt McKeon Says:

    My candidate for best headline:
    After the IRA blew up a statue of Admiral Nelson in the Irish capitol:
    British Admiral Leaves Dublin By Air.

  6. Margaret Soltan Says:

    Matt: LOL.

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