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...that because the children and their parents were here. But he just left the room and told everyone to leave. Then he told me to get back in bed and that we were going to make love. I said no. But he had the .38 and a knife and hit me. I got in and we did it. My nose was still bleeding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wife Beating: The Silent Crime | 9/5/1983 | See Source »

...bedroom light came on, blinding Young for a moment. She saw fractured images. A butcher knife shining against her roommate's throat. Her roommate's pinched, ashen face. A man in a blue nylon jacket and sneakers holding the knife. The stranger ordered Young to turn over onto her stomach and keep her face to the wall. For three hours on that cool night three months ago, he repeatedly raped and sodomized Young as her roommate lay trembling on the floor beside them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rape: The Sexual Weapon | 9/5/1983 | See Source »

...memorable is that Ira punched through the theme in the first few words ("They're writing songs of love,/ But not for me"). And in at least one song Ira could achieve the compression of poetry with three astonishing leaps of mood: "The way you hold your knife. "The way we danced till three," The way you've changed my life-/ No, no! They can't take that away from me!" Wrote Broadway Songwriters Betty Comden and Adolph Green of lyrics like these: "It's very clear they're here to stay-as long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lyrics by the Other One | 8/29/1983 | See Source »

Five minutes later, the TV crew caught up with the men on a lawn in the complex. The cameras recorded Willie Williams, 35, as he apparently stabbed the suspect, Charles Dean, 32, several times with a long knife. The other men kicked and punched Dean. "They got him and they got him good," said Cecelia Williams just after Dean, bleeding badly, was hauled away by police who had rushed to the scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Street Sentence | 8/15/1983 | See Source »

...them succeed, but Dubus never condescends to their often inarticulate yearnings. In The Pretty Girl, for instance, there is clearly something terribly wrong with Ray Yarborough. He rapes his ex-wife Polly at knife point and severely beats the man she had slept with during the bad last days of the marriage. Dubus gives Yarborough his say, allows him, in fact, to tell much of his own story: "They would call it rape and assault with a deadly weapon, but those words don't apply to me and Polly. I was taking back my wife for a while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sad Songs | 8/15/1983 | See Source »

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