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...years since, controversy has swirled around Memorial Hall. Alumni and historians have argued unsuccessfully--and colorfully--that the clock and tower should be replaced. Robert Campbell and Peter Vanderwarker, writing for the Boston Globe last spring, described the towerless Memorial Hall as "an architectural Bobbitt case...
John Wayne Bobbitt, who earlier this year beat charges of abusing his famous knife-wielding wife, Lorena, was convicted late Tuesday on a second domestic battery charge against another woman. After a Las Vegas jury found Bobbitt guilty of brutalizing his ex-fiancee, former topless dancer Kristina Elliott, Municipal Court Judge Ron Parraguirre called him a "bully." The ex-Marine already served most of a 15-day sentence this month for a similar incident...
...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