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...screwed- up self in reaction to, and emulation of, his womanizing, boorish dad (a cacklingly exuberant Stacy Keach). For "Titus," family is war, and it isn't afraid to drop its audiences into uncomfortable situations with no one-liners to save them, as when Titus has an AIDS scare and confronts the psychological legacy of his dad's own skirt-chasing. Like "All in the Family," its model, "Titus" daringly snatches comedy from the jaws of family drama. "The joy we get," Titus says, "is to scare the hell out of viewers and get us all laughing...
...first heard this get-out-and-vote rhetoric in seventh grade, when my civics teacher told our class that, if we didn't vote, we'd forfeit our right to complain. There is no more effective scare tactic on a class filled with 13-year-old Jewish boys, other than to mess with our Bar Mitzvah money. But voting so that you can whine is probably not what the framers had in mind. I don't remember seeing the phrase "bitching and moaning" anywhere in the Bill of Rights. Besides, voting actually endangers your right to complain because you might...
...later and later. Then, on Sept. 27, she presented her husband Thomas with a healthy boy. The birth, she explained, happened quickly and dramatically. Her water broke, an ambulance came to take her to a hospital in Akron, and she left the facility almost immediately because of a tuberculosis scare. Thomas Bica was overjoyed. The only problem was, unknown to him and to almost anyone else, Michelle Bica had not been pregnant...
...come from Michelle Bica's phone. They paid the new mother a visit on Oct. 2. She seemed nervous. The FBI called the hospital in Akron and learned that Bica had never had any appointments there, nor had she been admitted, and there had been no tuberculosis scare. Before the police could return for another round of questioning, Michelle went to the nursery to tend to the child and minutes later, in a separate bedroom, put a .22-cal. pistol in her mouth and pulled the trigger. Investigators later dug up the newly paved driveway and garage of her home...
Tests Don't Scare...