Word: bobbitt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Quentin Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs), then got spun and spindled: Tarantino is credited with the story, Stone and his collaborators David Veloz and Richard Rutowski with the screenplay. Meanwhile, NBK was acquiring a bizarre new resonance. "When I started," says Stone, "this was a surreal piece. Now, thanks to Bobbitt and Menendez and Tonya Harding, it's become satire. By the time I'd finished, fact had caught up to fiction. O.J. is the final blowout...
...consider the matter of wife battery. We managed to dodge it in the Bobbitt case and downplay it as a force in Tonya Harding's life. Thanks to O.J., though, we're caught up now in a mass consciousness-raisi ng session, grimly absorbing the fact that in some areas domestic violence sends as many women to emergency rooms as any other form of illness, injury or assault...
...second time in as many months, John Wayne Bobbitt has been arrested for domestic battery against his fiancee, former topless dancer Kristina Elliott. The couple met five months ago while Bobbitt was on tour after gaining national notoriety when his wife Lorena severed his penis. Lorena Bobbitt argued that her actions were the result of years of sexual and psychological abuse by her husband.parpar
...Hanoukai verdict provoked little of of the turmoil attending the acquittals of Lorena and John Bobbitt and the hung juries of the Menendez brothers. But critics charge that all these legal proceedings illustrate the same trend: juries are increasingly willing to make allowances for mitigating circumstances once considered largely irrelevant -- abused spouses who kill, violated children who murder incestuous parents, victims of posttraumatic stress syndrome driven to violence by disturbing flashbacks...
...judge, their first contact since their uncomfortable meeting last year, then got on the phone to the two losing candidates. Babbitt was able soon after to joke with friends about his experience. "I knew I had been cut," he told them, "when George Stephanopoulos referred to me as 'Secretary Bobbitt...