Word: ripper
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They already call her Ripper. Now they can call her Skipper...
...Beth "Ripper" Reilly, the starting goaltender for the Harvard women's soccer team, has been elected to captain the Crimson ship for the 1990 season...
...career, the President-elect has shown different faces to the world, prompting some observers to wonder just which George Bush will show up for the Inauguration: The moderate, traditional Republican who ran in 1980, or the right-tilting conservative on the stump this year? The George-the-Ripper hardballer who upset an overconfident Dole and Dukakis, or the kinder, gentler George who claims to be haunted by hungry children? The answer, of course, is a bit of each: Bush will be determined to do whatever it takes to complete the mission...
...more. A string of ABC specials in coming weeks will focus on people who have committed mayhem against those they love (Crimes of Passion), efforts by law enforcement officials to catch parole violators (Trackdown) and "infamous events that have shocked a nation" (Scandals). The Secret Identity of Jack the Ripper, a syndicated special airing this week, presents new clues on the Victorian bad guy, while Who Murdered J.F.K.? claims to offer new evidence of an assassination conspiracy. In the meantime, Morton Downey Jr. shouts down guests nightly on his talk show; a parade of lesbian mothers, sex surrogates and rape...
...JACK THE RIPPER (CBS, Oct. 21 and 23, 9 p.m. EDT). Michael Caine is a Scotland Yard detective tracking down the granddaddy of all serial killers in this two- parter...