Word: rapes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wall-to-wall pile, and there is the violent showpiece Smooth Criminal. The title track is Beat It redux, a spectacularly snazzy hang-tough tune that warns against macho excess. What the Thriller cut played for laughs, however, Smooth Criminal takes straight: an evocation of bloody assault, possible rape and likely murder. At any time, it would sound like a creepy song. At the end of the album, it has the effect of casting out all the optimism and willful idealism of Bad and Man in the Mirror and shrouding the record in a spooky, spiritual darkness. The piece...
...dubbed "Silent" for nothing. Understandably, Enid does not tell anyone about her taboo love life. She had even failed to leave a suicide note. In contrast to later decades, the Eisenhower years did not encourage the confessional style, or discussions about teenage sexuality and domestic forms of statutory rape...
Colonel North has broken the law, and has openly defended lying to Congress to conceal his illegal acts. He committed his crimes in support of a bad lot of men who engage in widespread rape, murder, and torture. What other "real Americans" may we look forward to viewing in the Harvard Coop windows? Charles Whitman? Richard Speck? Ed Gein? Perhaps Charles Manson...
...tested positive for exposure to the AIDS virus and who bit two guards, was convicted by a Minneapolis federal jury of two counts of assault with a deadly weapon: his mouth and teeth. In Columbia, S.C., assault and battery with intent to kill has been added to a rape charge in the upcoming trial of Terry Lee Phillips, a drifter who, prosecutors say, claimed to have AIDS and vowed to spread it before allegedly attacking a young woman...
Convicted Murderer Benjamin Berry, 31, went to the electric chair June 7, the first person executed in Louisiana in 28 months. Two days later Alvin Moore Jr., 27, executed for a rape-robbery-murder, became the second. Three days after that, Jimmy Glass, 25, convicted of shooting a rural couple to death, took the chair with a quip: "I'd just as soon be fishing." Then last week Glass's accomplice Jimmy Wingo, 35, declared both innocence and forgiveness ("I do still love you all in Christ") as he became the fourth person to be executed in the state...