Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Joel Steinberg case, decided two weeks ago, dwarfs them all. The Manhattan lawyer was accused of brutalizing his lover Hedda Nussbaum and was convicted of manslaughter in the death of their illegally adopted daughter Lisa. Here was every ingredient of the true-crime blockbuster: cocaine, an S-M relationship, a beautiful six-year-old and a battered woman, all set against the background of Greenwich Village. Most important, in a city afflicted with racial malaise, it starred what Tom Wolfe identified in The Bonfire of the Vanities as the Great White Defendant...
That barbaric incident only spotlighted Brazil's long history of police brutality. It is caused in part by a tradition of contempt toward offenders, and is compounded by a growing crime rate that has frightened many well-off Brazilians into indifference toward conditions in the country's overcrowded prisons. According to local records, 112 criminal suspects have died in police custody since...
...daughter Amy (Suzzanne Douglas), who stars as Max's one-time dancing partner and lover, and their hoofing cohorts represent one side of Max's struggle. On the other side, in a posh penthouse apartment is Nicky (Terrence McNally), Max's former partner in crime, who landed him in jail...
...result, when Max and Nicky actually stop dancing to debate the merits of the life of crime, which promises cash but little happiness, the scene is awkward. Hines is not a bad actor, but his forte is obviously dancing, and he seems uncomfortable standing still...
Liberals have to understand that American patience with violent crime has been spent. Failure to deal effectively with crime has increased the public appetite for the death penalty. Conservatives must see that this society can be hard, even implacable, against criminals without killing them. If politicians will lower their voices and quit pandering to our worst fears and baser instincts, the search for common ground can begin...