Word: raped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...result in one case was that Brooks Lee Anderson, a Negro who was convicted of rape in Tennessee, will not get a new trial because he failed to prove that the continual absence of Negroes on local jury panels was the result of racial discrimination. In the other, five plaintiffs seeking damages for wrongful death and personal injuries in the crash of an Alitalia plane near Shannon Airport in 1960 will be allowed to sue for more than the $8,300 limit then in effect because the limitation was stated in such small print that it was too difficult...
...wears a badge emblazoned SHERAF that his kids made for him. Fonda has the wound.in his side, and later his wounded psyche, nursed by a local spinster (Inger Stevens), while his boys raise hell with an itinerant preacher (Ed Begley), smash up a saloon, and try to gang-rape the town half-breed (Barbara Luna). This results in one of them being killed by the town half-wit (J. Robert Porter...
Their womenfolk walk the cove trails without fear of rape, though perhaps not immune to seduction at early ages, and they don't depend on LSD or pot to send them. You hardly ever hear of an ulcer or a nervous breakdown in the hills. The only air pollution problem is the smell of wood smoke on a frosty day. I don't believe I've heard a word about draft dodging or antiwar demonstrations in the mountains. Honor, manhood and pride mean a lot to the hill people. They are living in the coves...
...felt called upon to run at least one put-on, a bit of misogynic whimsy by Freelancer Pete Hamill urging the drafting of women. Hamill arrived at this conclusion after noting the behavior of a group of women who gathered in front of a police station after a rape suspect was brought in. They screamed: "Give him cancer." Writes Hamill: "It is at those moments that you understand that Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is, after all, a play about counter-insurgency...
Power Play. Which indeed the plot resembles. Myra is actually a Myron who has had a Christine Jorgensen-type operation and is passing through Hollywood, trying to rape havoc upon unwary heterosexual males. To Myra, sex involves power play, with more power than play; the book's most harrowing scene is Myra's cruel seduction and humiliating buggery, with an artificial penis, of an all-American male...