Word: threatener
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Just weeks after filing for divorce from her husband and manager Jack Gordon, LATOYA JACKSON has fled to an L.A. safe house--"far away from Jack"--where she is describing their marriage as short on love and long on intimidation. "He would beat me, threaten me, put a knife to my neck," says Jackson. "I was afraid if I left him he would kill me." Jackson wed the ex-con in 1989 and plunged into a string of profitable but cheapening enterprises, including launching a psychic hotline and posing for Playboy. "He controlled all my bank accounts," Jackson says...
...letter was not meant to threaten Challinor, Kessler-Harris said, but simply to request that as a woman in a dual capacity, Challinor rethink the issues related to the strike...
...women's 100, there seem to be no youngsters to threaten the four veterans who have dominated the event for four years: Gwen Torrence, 30, and Gail Devers, 29, of the U.S.; Russia's Barcelona bronze medalist Irina Privalova, 27; and Jamaica's defending Olympic champion Merlene Ottey...
...tortured general (Ed Harris) and some renegade Marines seize Alcatraz, take 81 tourists hostage and threaten the launch of VX gas rockets across the bay to vaporize San Francisco. An FBI biochemist (Nicolas Cage) is dispatched to defuse the weapons; a wily hermit (Sean Connery), the only prisoner to escape Alcatraz and live, is to help Cage navigate the Rock's maze of passageways...
...Douglas S. Cook and Mark Rosner, the movie is less a rip-off than a corrective. "This is the team-spirit action movie Mission Impossible should have been," says TIME's Richard Corliss. A tortured general (Ed Harris) and some renegade Marines seize Alacatraz, take 81 tourists hostage and threaten to launch gas rockets across the bay to vaporize San Francisco. An FBI biochemist (Nicolas Cage) is dispatched to defuse the weapons; a wily hermit (Sean Connery), the only prisoner to escape Alcatraz and live, is to help Cage navigate the Rock1s maze of passageways. It all works very smartly...