Word: prison
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lake was arrested for shoplifting in June 1985 and committed suicide by taking cyanide during police questioning. When police searched his cabin, they found more than 40 lbs. of human remains buried on the property, plus a soundproof concrete bunker that had been used as a prison. Ng was arrested in Canada a few weeks later after shooting a security guard during a store theft...
...First Ng was tried in Canada for the shooting and spent four years in jail. He fought extradition to the U.S. all the way to the Canadian Supreme Court before finally being returned to California in 1991. Once there, he became a jailhouse lawyer, filing complaints about everything from prison food to his attorneys. After a change of venue because of pretrial publicity, Orange County superior court judge John J. Ryan had finally had enough. When Ng, representing himself, refused to answer questions, Ryan ordered court-appointed lawyers to take over and set a trial date...
...today's NFL jocks-in-the booth culture) who hunts, and then grudgingly respects, Ah-nold. In Predator (1987), he's a gruff special-forces type who hunts a alien in the jungle, and grudgingly respects his commander, Ah-nold. And
...focused her talk last night on her interviews with Eugene de Kock, a perpetrator who earned the nickname of "Prime Evil" and is currently serving 212 years in prison, in addition to two life sentences...
...self-appointed saints carrying out their radical notions of God's design, but as a jail, a receptacle for the convict outcasts of England. It had no rhetoric of God and Country, and mercifully still doesn't. It was born in sin, not in virtue. The walls of the prison were not brick and stone but space itself. Australia had no Mississippi or Missouri, no fertile center; explorers went out into it, found little but desert, and died. The literary myth of its landscape, created by writers from the 1850s on, was at best hardscrabble survival--not America's lavish...