Word: lisa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Miss., being an American black in Paris -- and reveling in it -- is a cachet that opens doors. His logo is a grinning golliwog. On promotion tours he startles fans by handing out 3-in. plastic black doll pins as mementos. His first Louvre show, a spoof on the Mona Lisa, included such numbers as "Jungle Lisa loves Tarzan" (decollete leopard-print gowns) and "Moona Lisa" (Plexiglas-bubble headgear and silver- star-studded dresses). At his second Louvre show, two weeks ago, the crowd shrieked and whistled its approval for such outfits as "Cowboys" (fringed jackets and pony-skin patterns...
...ship roared higher and higher into the cloudless Florida sky, the words of Lisa Malone, the new voice of Launch Control, were cool and precise: "Discovery -- performance nominal." But if Malone, the first woman to deliver the countdown for a space shot, betrayed little emotion, her colleagues at NASA could barely contain their excitement. "It gets better every time," exulted NASA administrator James Fletcher. He had reason to cheer: last week's launch of Discovery, the third shuttle mission since the 1986 Challenger disaster, was another significant milestone in the comeback of the U.S. space program...
...Lisa Bianco was afraid of her husband. So when she decided to end years of beatings and other abuse by divorcing him, she got an order of protection warning him to stay away. But Alan Matheney continued to intimidate her, Bianco complained, and eventually abducted the couple's two young daughters, then 6 and 2. When police caught up with him more than 650 miles away, in Wilmington, N.C., they extradited Matheney back home to Mishawaka, Ind. Bianco pressed charges, but Matheney was released after posting $1,000 bail. Other arrests for beatings followed, as did another release. Finally...
...Like Lisa Bianco and April LaSalata, many women seek orders of protection to shield themselves from such wrath. As those two tragedies illustrate, however, such orders are often no more than paper tigers. Although provisions vary from state to state, all the laws subject men who violate these court orders to fines or jail terms. Yet men are seldom arrested for violations -- short of murder -- unless they are on the premises when police arrive. Meanwhile, the courts, still uncomfortable with domestic violence and faced with crowded prisons, tend to deal leniently with offenders...
...woman "truly needs an order because a man is going to kill her, then a restraining order really isn't going to do anything," says Barbara Shaw, director of Project Safeguard, a program for battered women in Denver. "Sometimes there aren't a lot of safeguards other than disappearing." Lisa Bianco seemed to have accepted that sad fact. She told friends she wanted to improve her work skills, save some money and then move away before her ex-husband was eligible for parole next year. Denied the warning that she had requested -- and had every right to expect -- she apparently...