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...have what you'd call a happy childhood," insists Streep. "For one thing, I thought no one liked me . . . Actually, I'd say I had pretty good evidence. The kids would chase me up into a tree and hit my legs with sticks until they bled. Besides that, I was ugly. With my glasses and permanented hair, I looked like a mini-adult. I had the same face I have today, and let me tell you the effect wasn't cute or endearing." Brother Harry, two years her junior, agrees: "In fact, she was pretty ghastly when...
When it finally came to trial, the case quickly crum bled, in part because many prosecution witnesses ended up praising Bernie; he had already started reimbursing them for their losses in I.O.S. stock when his bail was cut from $3.1 million...
...poor, but I am black, beautiful and proud." Then he called on his often tearful audiences to take up the chant. Referring to the 1976 racial riots, which were put down with murderous violence by South African police, he declared that "when dogs bit you here in Soweto, we bled in America." He characterized U.S. blacks as "African Americans" and said, "We bled in America when 1,000 of our brothers and sisters were killed here...
...look into the mirror in the morning, I want to take a swing at me." Literally. After losing to Iowa in 1963, Hayes slashed his face with a large ring on his left hand. Pacing the sidelines, he sometimes bit into the fleshy heel of his hand until it bled. Even a heart attack in 1974 did not make Hayes ease...
...relatives in Nebraska, stopped to help. Lyons, his wife Donnelda, 24, and their 22-month-old son Christopher were all shot to death. A niece of the Lyons, Teresa Tyson, 16 (no kin to the Tisons), was wounded in the hip and was later found in the desert, having bled to death...