Word: criminalled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Virginia Pasley, a former newspaper correspondent and author of 21 Stayed, a book about brainwashed American prisoners in Korea, believes that Patty Hearst's experiences as a captive-if her account is true-coincide with those of the P.O.W.s. They were humiliated, stripped naked, confined in narrow spaces, forced...
The final moments of Taxi Driver constitute one of those endings too good too spoil. Intellectually it's a trifle slick, a sort of cinematic illustration of the old Rolling Stones lyric about "just as every cop is a criminal and all the sinners saints..." But if Scorsese teases us...
The crime bill would reverse the current progressive trend in criminal sentencing. Besides making the death penalty mandatory for most of crimes including espionage, treason, and various categories of murder, the bill also calls for high maximum penalties giving judges greater discretion for criminal sentencing.
By making sentences indeterminate for felonies, the bill would allow judges to hand down sentences from anywhere between one year and life for some crimes. But more power to judges, who often make decisions based on criteria other than crime, such as race, poverty, or even appearance, is a step...
Sen. Birch Bayh (D-Ind.) an original supporter of the bill who withdrew out of public pressure, has said that with a few amendments S-1 could be workable. Spokesmen for the American Civil Liberties Union claim that only with 2600 amendments would the bill be palatable. S-1 is...