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Smerick provides an example of how the process can work: in one rape-murder, the victim was a 22-year-old, blue-eyed blond secretary who lived in a racially mixed middle-class community. She was happily married, did not smoke or drink, and had a pleasant, unassertive personality. She was found tied to her bed's headboard with the cord cut from a water mattress's heater. A washcloth was stuffed in her mouth, and she was blindfolded with her own sweatshirt. Her blouse was ripped open, and she was nude from the waist down. She had been raped...
...seventh symphony, Tony and Maria's courtship replayed as transvestite vaudeville and rather poor lighting leaves the audience more confused than amazed. And in the last two scenes, the catchy songs have all been sung, and the dancing is over. What remains is a rather explicit attempt at rape and Tony's death. Instead of being tragic, these scenes feel sensationalist...
Tribe used the example of the rights of the press to illustrate this point. He said that even though the names of rape victims are not constitutionally protected from the public, the press should exercise restraint in printing them. "It's very easy to equate the right of the press to do something with the question of whether it's right of the press do it," Tribe said...
FOOTNOTE: *TIME has respected the privacy of rape victims in the past, including those in the New York City jogger and Palm Beach cases, and will continue to do so unless a compelling argument to the contrary exists...
...detail, as if in some ritual of confession and humiliation to make up for all the years of privilege. The reader is exposed to reckless drug use and irredeemable boozing, to a daughter's experiments in group sex and a now dead son's alleged attempt at an incestuous rape -- even to summaries of children's grade school report cards and prep school fraternizing. No fact, it appears, is too intrusive or too repetitive for Tifft and Jones; the point that these communications moguls were personally inept at communicating is made over and over, as is the matching irony that...