Word: kill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...House, where he had performed so spectacularly on the court, cocaine hot lines around the country were clogged by anxious callers. Their questions were echoed across the U.S.: Could the nation's "recreational drug" of choice really be lethal, even on first use? How could a taste of cocaine kill a world-class athlete who had no known physical weaknesses...
...reversal of traditional good guy and bad guy roles theme reappears as we get to know the kidnappers better. The happy couple is too scared and too nice to kill Mrs. Stone (Bette Midler), so they keep lowering the ransom price, until Mrs. Stone complains she's been "kidnapped by K-mart." In the end, however, their niceness triumphs; Sandy's sincerity and her ballgown designs win the heart of the bitchy Mrs. Stone, and they all band together against the real villain, Mr. Stone...
...dean of students, Mr. Rooney (Jeffrey Jones), who has decided that Ferris, the darling of his school, has made a fool of him one too many times. Rooney is modeled on a mixture of Inspector Clouseau and his boss, who, as you may remember, in one movie aspired to kill his clueless detective (you even get to hear a refrain of the Pink Panther theme...
...motive is merely to alert the neighborhood that dangerous doings are taking place nearby without due process of environmental law. In hot pursuit of the security leak, the Feds apply a very broad mop to the drips, insisting that the idealists are terrorists, thus gaining an informal license to kill. Yet even here Brickman cannot resist his best impulses; he makes his villain (the subtle John Mahoney) more a man befuddled under pressure than evil incarnate. And he permits Mathewson to evolve from absentminded professor into a hero who is morally all present and accounted...
...Bulow was convicted of trying to kill his wife two times. Then he called in Dershowitz to appeal the verdict to the Rhode Island Supreme Court. With his hot shot team of lawyers and law students, Dershowitz argued that von Bulow's initial trial had been unfair because defense attorneys had not been given access to certain evidence. Dershowitz also argued that the use of a private investigator to uncover evidence for prosecution could imperil people's liberty from unwarranted searches of their private property. He won on the first argument but not on the second...