Word: rapists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...distinctions between and within the three main genres of private violence. Slapping a spouse is different from shaking a child?an adult can more easily understand, fight back or flee?and both are very unlike rape. Of the three, rape is most unequivocally a statutory crime, and probably every rapist ought to be locked up for some time. They are real criminals. Of course, a parent who willfully scalds a child's arm is a criminal. Of course, a man who stomps his pregnant wife is a criminal. These cases are, ironically, the easiest ones to think about: when...
Bill makes a practice of abusing his guests; they become victims, not visitors. To one, he says, "I don't care what the jury said, you look like a rapist to me." He calls a minister a "scuzzbag," a Congressman "a pimp in a business suit," an Italian chef "an immigrant with a Crock Pot." "Me," "my" and "I" are his favorite words. He is forever complaining to his wan, shell-shocked station manager, played by Max Wright, that guests are dull: "Get me ax murderers, a rapist, Freddie Silverman." When he wants to get rid of a possible...
...been hanging in here to prove that I'm more than a pretty face and a gorgeous bod. I signed up to do an off-Broadway play called Extremities. It's all about this cute young thing (me) who is attacked by this rapist whom I fight off and capture. It's sort of like an Angels episode only heavier, and you have to remember all these lines!!! So last week, on the night that the critics came to watch me, I'm just acting away, not bothering anyone, when this guy from the audience stands...
...Center for Constitutional Rights. Graduating in 1979, she spent the next two years as a public defender in San Francisco, where she rolled up a stunning 13-2 record injury verdicts, then left 18 months ago to set up a criminal practice. She will not represent an accused rapist whose defense is the woman's consent: "I don't want to be in the position [on crossexamination] of saying, 'Didn't you really want it?' " Most of her clients are drug defendants. One, accused of being the ringleader of West Coast cocaine dealers, looked like...
Nicaraguan officials candidly admitted that they were embarked on a form of propaganda campaign against the Big Pine maneuvers. Said a Sandinista diplomat in the Nicaraguan capital of Managua: "When there's a well-known rapist in the neighborhood, you scream in order not to suffer...