Word: murderousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anti-abortion film showed a third-trimester abortion to back up the concept that abortion is murder. The pro-choice film adressed the inevitability of abortion whatever its legal status and commented on the improvement nation's health statistics since the procedure became legal...
...crimes and misdemeanors Allen records in this film go not merely unpunished; they are generously rewarded. Upstairs, on the melodramatic story line, a hypocritical Judah gets away with murder, arranging for the assassination of his mistress (Anjelica Huston), who threatens to make their affair -- and his equally shabby financial affairs -- public, thereby destroying his family, wealth and reputation...
Gage, a former investigative reporter for the New York Times, spent years researching events that led to his mother's murder. The investigator was indistinguishable from the avenger. He eventually tracked down Eleni's inquisitor and interviewed him at gunpoint. But Gage did not pull the trigger. "There are times when I wake up at night and want to get back on a plane and kill the son of a bitch," Gage said. A Place for Us overlaps that past and goes on to embrace less heroic lifetimes, mainly the author's and that of his father. Yet each life...
...like to present women with all of the options--carrying the pregnancy, abortion and adoption," Bisby added. "We feel that abortion is an option that affects the women as well as the fetus. It's an end to life, but we don't use any terms like murder or kill [because] we feel that would be harrassment...
Although Ennis was initially charged with second-degree murder, the shooting "was clearly an accident," said assistant district attorney Perry Newman. Ennis was joking when he pointed the shotgun at his cousin, and his finger apparently bumped the trigger. Like more than 60 other shooting victims in TIME's survey, Tawanah Jean Griggs was the victim not of a crime but of a recklessly casual attitude about guns...