Word: poisoners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...became clear to NBC that its only chance of keeping Letterman was to dump Leno as Tonight host and give Letterman the job -- something NBC executives had publicly ruled out. What's more, a "poison pill" in Letterman's CBS contract made the 11:30 time period a virtual sine qua non of any deal. The CBS contract promised Letterman a $50 million penalty payment if his show was not aired at 11:30. Since NBC, to keep Letterman, was required to match CBS's monetary deal, it would have had to include the same penalty payment -- effectively forcing...
...courts crack down on abusers, and programs exist to help change violent behavior, victims will be less likely to take -- and less justified in taking -- the law into their own hands. And once the cycle of violence winds down in this generation, it is less likely to poison the next. That would be a family value worth fighting...
More American women -- rich and poor alike -- are injured by the men in their life than by car accidents, muggings and rape combined. Advocates and experts liken the effect over time to a slow-acting poison. "Most battered women aren't killing to protect themselves from being killed that very moment," observes Charles Ewing, a law professor at SUNY Buffalo. "What they're protecting themselves from is slow but certain destruction, psychologically and physically. There's no place in the law for that...
...matches, then spends the rest of its 70 minutes on the transformation of Iris (Kati Outinen), the stolid young woman on the assembly line, into a keg of emotional dynamite. Kaurismaki's almost-silent movie features a cast of rats -- mother, stepfather, brutal beau -- for whom rat poison may be the best antidote. And for U.S. viewers, Match Factory is a splendid introduction to a world-class (no joke) filmmaker, with a wit as dry as kindling...
...Adam's Rib on Thursday, Nov.12 at 7 p.m. Laws of Gravity on Thursday, Nov. 12at 8:55 p.m. Pepi, Luci, Bom on Thursday, Nov. 12at 9:40 p.m. Memoirs of a River on Thursday, Nov.12 at 7 p.m. The Panama Deception on Thursday,Nov. 12 at 5 p.m. Poison Ivy on Thursday, Nov. 12at 5:05 p.m. Simple Men and Hooray for Underdogopen on Friday...