Word: crimeeds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...court's pronouncement grew out of a case from Puerto Rico, where the former owners of the Condado Plaza Hotel and Casino had invoked the First Amendment guarantee of free speech to challenge a local ban on advertising by gambling casinos. Because of the crime and corruption that gambling could attract, Puerto Rico could have outlawed betting altogether, stated Justice William Rehnquist for the court, and the "greater power to completely ban casino gambling necessarily includes the lesser power to ban advertising of casino gambling." More ominously for other advertisers, Rehnquist suggested that the same logic could be used...
...outright about him, not anything at all. He mostly simply was not." What Benton does possess, it turns out, is a taste for armed robbery and a lecherous hankering after Jane Elizabeth Firesheets, who is willing to overlook his myriad inadequacies for the thrill of sharing a life of crime...
...Undaunted, Huppert is trying English again. Cactus, an Australian drama, opens in October, and she just finished shooting a mystery in Baltimore called The Bedroom Window. She plays a sultry, sophisticated woman, a "black angel," as she puts it, who cheats on her husband and fails to report a crime because it might reveal her affair. After many roles as a youthful seductress, Huppert welcomes the change of face. "My characters were more childish in my other movies," she says. "In The Bedroom Window I get to play a real woman...
...police chiefs and officers who had taken part in the storming of Lurigancho prison near Lima on June 18. At least 124 inmates died in the operation, including those killed after the prisoners had ended their resistance. Declared the President: "What happened after the surrender in Lurigancho is a crime that I will not silence." While condemning the police, Garcia strongly defended Peruvian marines who attacked another prison, on the island of El Fronton, where as many as 270 Shining Path disciples died...
Four years ago, when seven people in the Chicago area died after taking cyanide-laced capsules of Tylenol pain reliever, the crime seemed so horrible --so peculiarly horrible--that it was hard to believe it would ever be repeated. And yet it has been, again and again. Last February tainted Tylenol capsules killed a Peekskill, N.Y., woman. A month later traces of rat poison were found in Contac cold capsules and Teldrin allergy medication in Houston and Orlando. Two weeks ago, medical investigators discovered that two residents of Auburn, Wash., had died as a result of swallowing toxic Excedrin capsules...