Word: murderes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...avant-garde, jostling around those magnificent, infuriating tales. As one panelist, author Charles Johnson, comments early on, "the problem is not a lack of meaning...it's too much meaning." Quite often the participants' insights can be delightful--for example, author Gordon suggests that the irrationality of Cain's murder of Abel epitomizes "the crisis of liberalism"--but such comments often whiz by without sufficient examination...
These reforms include tougher sentences for all criminals and the adoption of the death penalty for those who murder police officers...
...promising as the new Murder One may be, it will have an uphill battle against bruising competition. Even after the network moved it to a safer slot on Monday night, the series never fully recovered from its disastrous initial face-off against the popular medics of ER. Now it has been scheduled against NBC's stratospherically rated Seinfeld and Suddenly Susan. Still, that ABC had enough faith in Murder One to renew it is one of the happier notes in this very dismal TV season...
LINDY CHAMBERLAIN CREIGHTON, 48; SEATTLE, WASHINGTON Center of sensational murder case...
...nine-week-old baby Azaria taken by a dingo, a wild Australian dog. The baby's body was never recovered. Based upon bloodstains on the baby's jumpsuit, expert witnesses concluded Chamberlain had cut her child's throat with scissors. Vilified by the press, she was convicted of murder, her husband named an accessory. In 1986 the child's jacket was found, providing evidence that led to their exoneration. Their saga was turned into the 1988 movie A Cry in the Dark, with Meryl Streep playing Chamberlain. She divorced her husband, and is now married to American Rick Creighton...