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...going to arrest me for this?" he said. "This is a family matter. Why do you want to make a big deal out of it? We can handle it." Nicole eventually decided not to press charges, but the city attorney brought up O.J. on a misdemeanor charge of spousal battery. He was fined and placed on two years' probation after pleading no contest. So impermeable was his image, however, that the conviction did not prevent NBC Sports from signing him to a broadcast contract three months later. Last week, city district attorney Gil Garcetti called the handling of the case...
...connected to the painful reduction in U.S. fighting forces following the end of the cold war. In 1986 there were 27,783 reported cases of violence in military families; last year there were 46,287. Now, a confidential -- and unprecedented -- Army survey obtained by TIME suggests that spousal abuse is occurring in one of every three Army families each year -- double the civilian rate. Each week someone dies at the hands of a relative in uniform, and nearly 1,000 formal complaints of injury are lodged against family members in the service. Untold thousands may suffer in silence...
...officers," an Army man says. "So you wait till you get home and take it out on her and the kids." Another soldier will only say of his wife that "we abused each other." In fact, the Army survey suggests that spousal abuse usually involves violence by both partners. But women, it notes, are far more likely than men to be injured...
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...