Word: bobbitt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lorena Bobbitt and Geraldo Rivera, this is farfetched by only a smidgen. (Who can be certain, in fact, that Geraldo hasn't already done it?) The film takes place in the year 1999, when the crime problem has ratchetted up a few notches. Driving home from work, Jessica sees random fights on the streets, and when she enters a bar, a computerized sensor announces, "Weapons clear." Despite a few lapses in logic -- even for a man whose appeals are exhausted, how can an execution be scheduled this precisely? -- the film, directed by Tommy Lee Wallace (Stephen King's "It") from...
...proceed to the three mysteries (two violent, one benign) that lie at the heart of the matter: Rape, Judicial Bobbitt-Lopping, and the Antioch Rules...
...help any woman's tenure portfolio? Paglia paints a picture of an Academy so terrorized by feminist ideologues that the old boys faintly cower in terror, their hands--no doubt--cupped in front of their, er, more private parts. Move over, Harvey Mansfield and endowed co., here comes Lorena Bobbitt and not only is she pissed, but--much worse--she's tenured...
...opinion piece in yesterday's paper implied that Lorena Bobbitt's act, in slicing off her husband's penis, was a form of "castration." Castration, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is "the removing of the testicles...
...defense, which freed the killer of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk; too much sugar made him do it. More recently Damian Williams, videotaped beating trucker Reginald Denny during the Los Angeles riots, was found not guilty because he got caught up in the moment. Lorena Bobbitt convinced a Virginia jury that being physically and sexually abused by her husband, forced to have sex when she didn't want to and failing to "have orgasm," drove her to cut off his penis. She only has to see a psychiatrist...