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Police have always hated answering complaints about domestic disputes. Experts acknowledge that such situations are often particularly dangerous, but suspect that there are other reasons for holding back. "This issue pushes buttons, summons up personal emotions, that almost no other issue does for police and judges," says Linda Osmundson, who co-chairs a battered wives' task force for the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence. "Domestic violence is not seen as a crime. A man's home is still his castle. There is a system that really believes that women should be passive in every circumstance." And it persists despite...
Back in his office in Washington, where he chairs the Inauguration Committee with his wife, Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, he has sent off the shirts to be inscribed by his close friend from Arkansas. He also has two fractured ribs, a broken hand and deep wounds on his face. But he is exhibiting the show-must- go-on mentality that has made him and Linda a force in Hollywood. Together they have created, written, directed and produced three network shows to current prime-time success: Designing Women, Evening Shade and Hearts Afire...
Harry met the President-elect when his brother Danny, an optometrist in Little Rock who has known Clinton since they were college students, introduced them in the late 1960s. After Harry met Linda -- she had walked up to him at Columbia studios and said, "So you're the other hick on the lot" -- he went over with her to the Governor's mansion one morning for coffee and strawberries. The four didn't stop talking until many hours later. As a granddaughter of a muckraking Arkansas newspaper editor (he was shot by the Ku Klux Klan) and the daughter...
...Thomasons made themselves invaluable again during the Democratic Convention, when they came up with the idea -- and the choreography -- of the dramatic walk from Macy's basement to Madison Square Garden. Hillary asked Linda to produce a film for the convention that would reintroduce the family to the country. The Man from Hope, a 14-min. documentary interspersing home movies and interviews with the Clintons, created an image of small-town life as warm and engaging as that of Evening Shade...
...under siege and I got so fat I could hardly walk. Everyone else was making fun of me, but Harry just went out and bought me bigger suits." Late at night, when she was too weary to do anything else, Hillary would always find time to call Linda, cradling a phone, laughing and hatching plans for when they would be back in Little Rock...