Word: drunks
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...convicted in 1988 of murdering her husband, who she says routinely beat her and her children. Women who kill an abusive spouse almost never receive the death penalty. But Haney's defense was not all it might have been: one of her attorneys, for instance, came to court so drunk that the judge halted the proceedings and sent the man to jail overnight. When the trial resumed the next day, Haney was convicted and sentenced...
During her 23-year marriage, Margaret Randolph could have qualified as a poster woman for spousal abuse. Her husband Gary Randolph, a sometime dock worker, would get drunk and then "bring out his guns," Margaret says. He would shoot up the house as their three children, now ages 22, 15 and 13, dived for cover under the beds. According to Margaret, one night Gary shot her in the arm with a pistol. Afraid to report the incident to the police, she packed up the children a few months later and moved from their St. Louis home to Chatsworth, Georgia...
Initially AbFab was a tough sell even to the famously open-minded BBC. Producer Jon Plowman recalls a BBC development executive viewing the show and remarking, "I don't think women being drunk is funny." According to Plowman, AbFab made it on the air thanks to the ardent support of a secretary to the BBC's head of entertainment. She enjoyed the show and taped it for all her friends, who quickly became fans. It emboldened the network to take the risk...
...front. Whatever is scabrous and saw-toothed and in-your-face is probably brought to you by the major labels and the big studios. For parents, the pervasive electronic culture can start to look like some suspect stranger who hangs around their kids too much, acting loutish, rude and drunk...
...overflow crowd of over 2,000 fans, drunk with joy and beer, poured onto the field to celebrate Harvard's dramatic overtime win and carried Carella, among others, off the field and into the happy...