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Word: murderousness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...woman lawyer, believing that death is the ultimate climax, impale each victim on the cold steel of their lust. Law of Desire draws a bent triangle: a gay movie director, his transsexual sister (Maura) and her adopted child's rightful mother (played by a Spanish drag queen). Revelations of murder, incest, suicide and lotsa hot sex follow, but the tone remains knowing, tender. As Matador is about desire, Law is about caring; the first picture is a morgue shot, the latter a cardiogram. The film is as heartfelt as the tears that seep from behind its hero's red plastic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Pedro on The Verge of a Nervy Breakthrough | 1/30/1989 | See Source »

STARKE, Fla.--Ted Bundy, the "diabolical" law school dropout who confessed to killing 20 women in four Western states, was executed in the electric chair today for the 1978 rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Serial Killer Bundy Executed in Florida | 1/25/1989 | See Source »

Bundy was condemned for the kidnapping, rape and murder of 12-year-old Kimberly Leach of Lake City. Her body was found in an abandoned pigsty. He also was sentenced to death for killing two Florida State students in Tallahassee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Serial Killer Bundy Executed in Florida | 1/25/1989 | See Source »

Sharfstein's argument is based on the new Heritage Dictionary's definition of murder. What Sharfstein unfortunately overlooks is the fact that the issues which he raises hinge on a moral dialogue, and that such a discussion should not and cannot be based on literary definitions. Whether the killing of animals can be called murder or not does not change the fact that the lives of the animals are being taken from them, and that the motivations for this killing (and the mistreatment which frequently precedes it) arises quite often from the moral vacuum of purely economic considerations rather than...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Animal Rights | 1/23/1989 | See Source »

...Pennsylvania Avenue is more than a change of Zip Codes. As she puts color-coded stickers on the furniture and pictures to signify what goes, what stays and what gets tossed out in this latest move, she is already nostalgic over life as Second Lady. "I got away with murder," says the woman who allowed as how Nancy Reagan should have simply replaced the White House china a piece at a time instead of buying a whole new set, and who suggested that her husband strip down to disprove rumors that he was wounded during a tryst. As she prepares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Silver Fox | 1/23/1989 | See Source »

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