Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...drama is based on the trial transcripts and various videotapes as well as extensive interviews, though with an aggressively prodefense point of view. The film begins with the initial allegations leveled against McMartin's pasty-faced grandson Ray Buckey (Henry Thomas) by a mother later diagnosed as schizophrenic. Judy Johnson, portrayed in the film by Roberta Bassin as a dazed freak, insists that Buckey sodomized her 2 1/2-year-old...
Though producers treat these shows as mere entertainment, many viewers do not. A study involving 187 students conducted by communication professor Glenn Sparks of Purdue University found that exposure to such programs heightened belief in the paranormal. And when that exposure is constant, says University of Oregon psychologist Ray Hyman, each new repetition of a paranormal tale, even when related with a skeptical tone, "makes it more and more believable." Scientists are worried, too, that the proliferation of paranormal TV is contributing to the public's scientific illiteracy, which they regard as a national liability in a high-tech...
Michael S. Berk and Alberto Morel, both of theBusiness School's class of '96, won election tothe board. The third seat reserved for a HarvardUniversity graduate student seat was captured byLaw School and Kennedy School student Ray Ying...
...When you call the police, it is not an easysituation," Rando said yesterday. "They evacuatethe building, if they do it by the rules. You haveto go through a big hassle, it's not like theybring in a little machine and X-ray...
...religious faith (Southern Baptist) and the vast and varied world of entertainment at his feet. Too good, it seems, not to attract some criticism. Like most widely popular novelists, he has been pummeled by reviewers -- for paper characters, bad dialogue (not true; he writes realistic talk), disappointing endings. Ray Sawhill, in Modern Review, says Grisham's books "aren't Middle America as seen and expressed by an artist; they're Middle America entertaining itself. A Grisham novel is cousin to those catalogs you find in the seat pockets of airplanes...