Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...victim was Rebecca Schaeffer, 21, a rising actress who co-starred in the CBS series My Sister Sam and is featured in the current movie Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills. Arrested for her murder in Tucson the next day was Robert John Bardo, 19, a former fast-food restaurant worker. Authorities describe him as "an obsessive fan of Miss Schaeffer...
...French village of Luxiol, near the Swiss border, a farmer with a history of mental illness managed to obtain a hunting gun and went on a shooting spree that lasted 30 minutes. When the rampage was over, Christian Dornier, 31, had murdered 14 people, including his mother and sister, and wounded his father and eight others...
Townsfolk speculated that the killer had become deranged because of business problems and opposition to his sister's recent marriage. After shooting his relatives, Dornier drove through Luxiol (pop. 128) and neighboring communities, picking off people along the way. One villager shot Dornier in the neck with a rifle, but that did not stop him. Eventually captured by police, Dornier was taken to a nearby hospital for emergency treatment. On Friday he was transferred to a prison hospital near Paris, where he was reported in stable condition. Said Luxiol Mayor Roger Clausse, whose five- year-old niece was among...
...beneath the arrogance he wears like a badge of honor is the deeper, profound racial anger that fueled Do the Right Thing. "Racism usually erodes self-confidence. It seems to have triggered his," observes actress Ruby Dee, who plays Mother Sister in Do the Right Thing. The Howard Beach incident, in which a black man died after being chased onto a freeway by a white mob -- an expression in Lee's mind of a double standard inflicted on blacks -- inspired the film. Even the controversy that erupted over his use at the end of the film of a Malcolm...
...professor of forensic pathology at Wayne State University, regrets that "people are ashamed to admit a relative committed suicide, seeing it as a blemish on the good name of the family." Since suicide can be contagious, many families rightly fear that a son or daughter, a brother or sister, may be inclined to imitate the act of self-destruction. But "depression is a disease," says Detroit psychiatrist Karole Avila. "The way to rip away the veil over suicide is to destigmatize...