Word: boyfriend
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...scare us. The Media Research Center made a big error in its assessment of the show, incidentally--according to the Center, on the show "abstinence was not a choice." Wrong. The main character--the one everyone knew, identified with, turned in to see--chose not to sleep with her boyfriend. She made this decision under great pressure from her boyfriend. He dumped her as a result ... and, gasp, her life went on! And they got back together in the end. I'd call this presenting abstinence as a viable option. What, you don't think that the actions of just...
Only a few days beforeSusan Smith drowned her two young sons, her former boyfriend testified today, he wrote her that the children were one reason their relationship could not continue. Tom Findlay, who was 27 at the time of the boys' deaths and who had an affair with her while she was separated from her husband, said in the letter: "There is something about you that is not suited for me, and yes, I'm talking about your children." Smith, who had mentioned pressure fomr a boyfriend but had never named Findlay, has written in her confession...
...guilty by reason of insanity, lead defense attorney David Bruck is expected to argue that Smith -- who wrote a detailed confession -- was psychologically destabilized by a lifetime of betrayals: a father who killed himself, a stepfather who molested her, a husband who cheated on her and a boyfriend who toyed with her affections. The prosecution, led by 16th Circuit solicitor Thomas Pope, is expected to portray Smith's murderous act as the culmination of a life of deceit and manipulation. In reality, both characterizations may contain elements of truth...
...Chicago he boarded not long after Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman were murdered. Earlier, the defense team suffered a setback in its effort to present a theory that the murders were committed by drug dealers when Judge Lance Ito refused to allow the testimony of Christian Reichardt, the former boyfriend of Nicole's sometime houseguest Faye Resnick. Reichardt's testimony that Resnick's drug use had left her deeply in debt to dealers was crucial to the defense assertion the killings were meant as a message that Resnick should pay up. Ito, however, found the whole scenario to be highly...
...into murder; in Johnny Eager (1942), she helped Robert Taylor live up to his character's name. Her turn in 1957's Peyton Place won her an Oscar nomination. She followed it with a role in the real-life melodrama that erupted when her daughter fatally knifed an abusive boyfriend of Turner's. Things went a bit better for her seven husbands; they merely got divorced...