Word: abductor
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...club, Nina Crugnola, 80, and her husband Tony, 79, are a little flushed. So before heading off for phase two of their workout--the weight machines--they take a moment to wipe away the sweat, adjust their headsets and instruct a fellow septuagenarian on how to use a hip abductor. "A year ago, I didn't think I'd ever learn how to work these machines, let alone stay on the treadmill without falling off," says Nina. "But I've had osteoporosis, he's had a blocked ventricle, and you know, this keeps everything going good...
...tapes, for which the thief is demanding a $100,000 ransom, were stolen recently from a hotel room in France. Jackson's lawyers have threatened "immediate action" against any publication tempted to publish the photos, and declared Jackson's intention to prosecute rather than pay ransom to the tapes' abductor...
...could be called a voice of dissent. It was Cary's voice, carping about having to share his bedroom upon Steven's return in 1980, and wondering why Steven got such a hero's welcome for leading a younger boy named Timmy White to freedom from the same skeevy abductor...
...casting. Gazzara, angrily mourning his lost career as a local lounge singer, and Huston, obsessing on the Bills' football frustrations, are glorious eccentrics. And Christina Ricci, as the tap dancer Billy forces to play his faux fiance, is just lovely. She falls into instant love with her abductor, and with a kind of patient ferocity redeems his sanity...
...five, I was abducted first by one parent and then, when found, by the other. Dragged from home to home, country to country, state to state, I was hidden for years before the FBI found me. I was then returned to the original abductor, who forever vilified my other parent. As a result, I am estranged from both parents. Having gone through it, I can't say if it was worse to be abducted or to be found. I can say the abduction indelibly marked me. I beg parents who contemplate kidnapping their children to reconsider. Abducting a child often...