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...women wear CASTRATE RAPISTS buttons. In Florida this year, feminists tracked and beat up a rape suspect who allegedly preyed on lonely women in singles bars. Some mutter darkly about assassinating rapists if the courts will not convict. Feminists made a national cause celebre out of the case of Joan Little, the black woman acquitted of murder in the stabbing of a jailer who she says attacked her sexually. When Inez Garcia, a Chicane woman in Soledad, Calif., shot a man to death 27 minutes after he allegedly held her down during a rape, a smattering of feminists loudly applauded...
...chose to release on this album. Dylan is most effective when he sings against the grain of the instrumentation, as in "I Want You" from Blonde on Blonde where he rarely hits the same notes as the melody line. (This partly explains why nobody sings Dylan songs like Dylan; Joan Baez, for instance, seems obsessed with proving to us that she can hit every note when she's supposed to, not understanding, as does Dylan, that one's voice can be played off the melody in counterpoint). But on this version, the power of his voice is absorbed...
...disclosed, "nor do I remember the earth moving." Columnist Art Buchwald succumbed to the charms of a 30-year-old chambermaid at the Long Island resort where he worked one summer. He was 15 at the time, said Buchwald, "and I think she seduced me." Comedienne Joan Rivers spent $42 on a brand new dress for the big event. "The whole thing lasted about a minute and a half," she reported, "including buying the dress." Actor Jack Lemmon was a student at Harvard whose big encounter became a case of coitus interruptus when a parking-lot attendant discovered him entangled...
...dark-paneled courtroom in Raleigh, N.C., the 21-year-old black defendant testified in a voice that was so low that jurors often had to cup their ears to catch her words. She clutched a tissue but broke down in tears only once. Otherwise, Joan Little remained remarkably self-possessed through two days of painful testimony and crossexamination, sticking stoutly to her story that she had been defending herself from rape when she stabbed white Jailer Clarence Alligood to death with an ice pick in the Beaufort County Jail in Washington...
Weeping Jurors. Joan Little's version of what happened was far different and so affecting that two of the black women jurors wept. According to her story, Alligood came to her cell in search of sex three times between 10 p.m. on Aug. 26 and 3 a.m. on Aug. 27. Rebuffed the first time, he returned with a present of cigarettes and sandwiches. He left, but soon came back. "By then," she testified, "I had changed into my nightgown. He was telling me I really looked nice in my gown, and he wanted to have sex with me." Alligood...