Word: spousal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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BEST POSSIBLY UNINTENTIONAL DISPLAY OF BAD TASTE. As the winner for Best Documentary Short wound up a heartfelt speech on the horrors of spousal abuse (the subject of her film), the show's telecast director cut to a reaction shot of actor Laurence Fishburne -- nominated as Best Actor for playing wife beater Ike Turner in What's Love Got to Do with...
...always painful and only sometimes comprehensible from the seventh row. The play, which George Abbott adapted from John Cecil Holm's work Hobby Horses, was written for the more indulgent audiences of 58 years ago. Perhaps its cheery view of compulsive gambling, drinking until passing out, male dominance and spousal abuse seemed innocuous then; it is repellent today. The performances are even coarser. While the second half is at least less soporific than the first, there's not a moment of believable emotion or realistic behavior...
Nothing lends itself to Rossini's tidal score more than a story of comic abduction, spousal warfare, anachronistic feminism and subtle slapstick. In this opera, one Bey of Algiers, Mustafa, seeks to rid himself of his dull wife. Elvira and replace her with the kidnapped Isabella, an Italian femme fatale. Enter Lindoro, a hapless Italian slave who just happens to be the lover of Isabella. With the cooperation of an unlucky suitor and the assistance of Elvira, Isabella and Lindoro escape to Italy together by means of an outragerous contrivance, leaving Mustafa and Elvira reunited...
Only nine states have passed laws permitting expert testimony on battered- woman syndrome and spousal violence. In most cases it remains a matter of judicial discretion. One Pennsylvania judge ruled that testimony presented by a prosecutor showed that the defendant had not been beaten badly enough to qualify as a battered woman and therefore could not have that standard applied to her case. President Bush signed legislation in October urging states to accept expert testimony in criminal cases involving battered women. The law calls for development of training materials to assist defendants and their attorneys in using such testimony...
...Harvard, as well as other employers in the city, could and should offer spousal benefits to its employees," Lipkin said...