Word: murdered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...town. They tied him like a scarecrow to the fence of a ranch and beat him to death because he was gay. I know Wyoming somewhat: it can be a violent place, and most people I've met there don't like homosexuals. But the deliberate savagery of this murder, a hate crime, shocked people, because, for the most part, they have what the writer William S. Burroughs '36, adopting a century-old slang word for honest thieves, appropriated to his own purpose. They're Johnsons--folk who mind their own business and let others do the same...
...sure Irving Kristol, Harvey Mansfield, Midge Decter, Minister Neuhaus and company deplore the murder in Laramie; nor should I wish to curtail their First Amendment or academic freedom...
This is the kind of movie where two "swingers" suggest a foursome with our teen runaways (just married in a sequence which cuts between another hilarious murder and the ceremony, a la Godfather's baptism), only to be murdered in most bizarre fashion by two satanic dolls. The dolls then tongue and screw, all the while making jokes about being anatomically correct and using "rubbers." (Cuz they're plastic, get it?) Needless to say, this is a special movie...
Hours after President Clintonsigned the budget bill into law yesterday, ending the 105th Congressional session and effectively halting debate on pending hate crime legislation, members of the College community gathered to remember Matthew Shepard, the gay University of Wyoming student whose murder put that legislation in the spotlight...
...gathering was also an opportunity to discuss in a comfortable forum issues of sexual identity and campus tolerance raised by Shepard's murder, attendees said...