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...Calvin Klein said to be looking for new underpants pitchman...
Family and friends in St. Louis, Missouri, where the Shaws had moved, decided that Bobby needed time to adjust. Martha's common-law husband Calvin Morris decided to "bring Bobby along." "They were good friends," says Martha. Morris bought Bobby clothes and took care of him. But on Sept. 17, 1975, Bobby Shaw shot and killed Calvin Morris with a 20-gauge shotgun. Rushing to the scene, Bobby's older brother Vancell asked him what had happened. "I don't know," Bobby said. And then he asked Vancell for cigarettes...
...story of Bobby Shaw's life makes some people cry. At his recent competency hearing, the court stenographer had to stop several times to compose herself. But guilt or innocence is not in dispute here. Nobody argues that Bobby Shaw did not kill Calvin Morris. No one suggests that he did not then fatally stab prison guard Walter Farrow while doing time. For many who have followed the case, anger rises from the story of his journey through America's justice and social-welfare system. For Bobby Shaw has never been able to raise the defense of insanity, even though...
Martha Shaw was studying to become a nurse when Calvin Morris was killed. She could never bring herself to finish. "I just can't handle that kind of pressure. It's killing me. My son's daddy is dead. He needed his daddy." She was so angry at Bobby that "for a long time I wouldn't speak to him." Then the second murder occurred. "I began to realize he was sick. I've blamed myself all these years." She does not want to see him die. "Bobby will never have a wife and family. He will never be able...
...content of popular culture has been a favorite target among politicians caught up in the culture wars, but kids themselves have their own criticisms of what they see. Many recoil at the sexual pressures they feel from Calvin Klein ads, MTV, heavy-breathing movies, all the icy, staged or oddball sex they see in books by Madonna and rock videos. "If you turn on TV, there's a woman taking off her clothes," says Marcela Avila, a senior at Santa Monica High, who was among a group of students who sat down with TIME's Jim Willwerth to discuss...