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Word: drifters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hayworth married, five times, men who were wrong for her. Her first husband, a drifter and grifter named Eddie Judson, was roughly her father's age. Although he helped turn a chubby young dancer into a screen siren, his methods were brutal; he offered her body to those in Hollywood who could advance her career. She claimed to have been happy with Welles, at least before his infidelities became too blatant. "If this was happiness," Welles told Leaming years later, "imagine what the rest of her life had been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sad Life of a Love Goddess | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

...accused rapist: a drifter from Georgia. The accuser: a 22-year-old woman who was wearing a white lace miniskirt, a green tank top and no underwear on Nov. 6, 1988, when she claimed she was kidnaped at knifepoint from a Fort Lauderdale restaurant parking lot and raped twice. The jury's verdict last week: not guilty, on the ground that she had solicited sex. "We all feel she asked for it for the way she was dressed," explained jury foreman Roy Diamond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American: Notes TRIALS She Asked For It | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH (NBC, Oct. 1, 9 p.m. EDT). Elizabeth Taylor stars as a fading movie star (no comments, please) who falls for a shady drifter (Mark Harmon) in Tennessee Williams' play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Oct. 2, 1989 | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

...words: "freedom," "victory," "Hezbollah." He wore a flak jacket under a camouflage shirt jacket that bore other words, one misspelled: "PLO," "Libya," "death to the Great Satin." He had placed plugs in his ears to dull the sounds of what he was about to do. Patrick Purdy, 26, a drifter with guerrilla-warfare fantasies, had returned to the % school he attended 16 years earlier for a final, cowardly assault...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Slaughter in A School Yard | 1/30/1989 | See Source »

...jovial giant"? Seems he was shot to death in his driveway, allegedly by a former Scout leader who was having an affair with his wife. How about the middle-aged beautician in Florida who used to hang out at a bar called Madge's? Gave a ride to a drifter one night and wound up with her throat slashed and her body dumped by the railroad tracks. Then there's the Garden Grove, Calif., teenager convicted of shooting her stepmother to death. Now she claims she was coaxed into making a false confession by her father, who, she says, committed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: A Walk on the Seamy Side | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

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