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...Joan Bacarella of Englishtown, N.J., testified that Vigliotto proposed a day after they met in February 1981, urging her to divorce her estranged husband. She said that she realized her "prince had turned into a frog" when he borrowed $1,600 in cash and $40,000 worth of inventory from her clothing shop and then failed to return to a motel where she was waiting with her mother and three children. Another of Vigliotto's wives, Sharon Clark of Angola, Ind., told the jury that she was abandoned barefoot and $49,000 poorer in an Ontario motel three weeks...
...approach. The case grew out of the notorious 1977 hammer killing of Yale Student Bonnie Garland by Richard Herrin, her jealous exboyfriend. The judge upheld a jury award of $30,000 to the parents against Herrin, ruling that he recklessly caused severe emotional distress. Says Bonnie's mother Joan: "Now a criminal can't 'I have no responsibility for the damage I've done...
Click, click, click. Let your magic channel selector take you on a ramble through the satellite night. Three basketball games fill the sports stations: one pro, one college, one high school. Cable News Network is airing its 30-min. business report. With Mick Jagger and Joan Jett setting the tempo, MTV rocks all night. PBS has opera in German and soap opera in the Queen's English. In the free-for-all called cable access, gurus and do-gooders are proselytizing for churches without disciples, causes without effect. A raunchier access channel offers the spectacle of a young...
Authorities said yesterday that they are continuing their investigation for definitive links between a murder suspect and the disappearance of Joan L. Webster, a 25-year-old Graduate School of Design student missing for more than 14 months...
...obviously compels much of the film's allegorizing. Mohandas Gandhi was this century's most prominent saint. Saints, however, don't usually make for good movies at all--unless of course you happen to have one of those rare ones who appear in the midst of powerful human events. Joan of Arc was such a figure, as was Gandhi, the leader of one of history's greatest popular movements. The Gandhi Attenborough chose to depict is the Gandhi of popular memory: the holy man who shrewdly arrayed his moral power against a corrupt colonial regime. Attenborough ignores the Gandhi...