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Dicke portrays the victimized Audrey without making her seem like a hopeless caricature. Her touching ballad "Somewhere That's Green" is a hysterical list of simple dreams: "in a tract house we share...I cook like Betty Crocker and I look like Donna Reed..." Even dressed in fake fur and leopard skin and singing lines like "I know Seymour's the greatest but I'm dating a semi-sadist," Dicke manages to make us empathize with her plight...

Author: By Lori E. Smith, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: An Entertaining Shop of Horrors | 12/10/1992 | See Source »

...women's movement, especially within Catholicism, is often linked to other emotional positions, including acceptance of birth control, abortion and homosexuality. It is by no means only men who view these developments with alarm. The movement's goal, warns traditionalist Donna Steichen, author of Ungodly Rage, is nothing less than "the overthrow of Christianity. It's not about advancing women in positions in the church. It's about a complete change in theology. Are we talking about a church founded by the Son of God made man? Or are we talking about simply a social gathering that we can rebuild...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Second Reformation | 11/23/1992 | See Source »

...Donna Marie Wisener's suffering at her father's hand started at age two and continued into her teens. To mark his displeasure, he threw oak logs at her; for amusement, he handcuffed her to a chair. Just as bad for the Tyler, Texas, girl was the sexual abuse. Her father would send her lewd Valentines -- "I would like your heart and I assume the rest of you will follow" read one message -- and give her "rubdowns." The agony culminated one evening when her father threw her against the wall, hitting her on the head over and over. He also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Kids Kill Abusive Parents | 11/23/1992 | See Source »

...other supportive adults who nurture them, typically a nonabusive parent, grandparent, teacher or coach. Some manage to cope by emotionally numbing themselves or by taking out their repressed anger on someone other than the abuser. Others find the torment intolerable. They may run away or try to commit suicide. Donna Marie Wisener once had a gun in her mouth when she was discovered by her father, who told her, "Next time do it right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Kids Kill Abusive Parents | 11/23/1992 | See Source »

...have sex with Donna Rice, Jessica Hahn, Bob Dole," wrote The Crimson's editorial chair in a piece regarding about George Bush, a little over a year ago. "Beat Bush/Quayle? The Dems couldn't beat Bush/Hitler...

Author: By Michael K. Mayo, | Title: George? George Who? | 11/20/1992 | See Source »

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