Word: psychopaths
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...exchange for a substantial chunk of change, I promise to be a pliant, obedient guinea pig. The experimenter promises not to leave me a drooling, drug-crazed psychopath (unless, of course, he agrees to pay extra...
Here again is where men and women are speaking different languages. No woman in this country who has experienced sexual harassment would view Thomas as a psychopath. He is just another man who used poor judgment and stepped over the line...
...most shocking aspect of the hearings is not that Judge Thomas might have said the things that Hill alleges. The worst part was listening to the disbelief in the senators' voices as they questioned Hill. Like other men in this country, they believe Thomas must have been a psychopath to say the things he allegedly said...
...extreme are those who argue that for the word to retain its impact, it must be strictly defined as forced sexual intercourse: a gang of thugs jumping a jogger in Central Park, a psychopath preying on old women in a housing complex, a man with an ice pick in a side street. To stretch the definition of the word risks stripping away its power. In this view, if it happened on a date, it wasn't rape. A romantic encounter is a context in which sex could occur, and so what omniscient judge will decide whether there was genuine mutual...
...Nancy Price's novel, Martin was as fully formed a predator as Laura was a prey. And at the climax, she finally got to be in control of their marriage. But this movie is interested neither in getting under a psychopath's scalp nor in making Laura a feminist hero. At its end she is still the harassed girl, misreading signs of threat and dropping her gun at inopportune moments. So the actress must play Laura's fragility instead of her strength. It makes for another indifferent portrait in a bland Roberts gallery. As such -- go figure -- it will probably...