Word: tormentor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rodney King drama unfold on cable TV, while someone else listens to an Eddie Murphy hit and another works out on a NordicTrack. One of the defenders makes a placatory gesture, offering the intruders a Cuisinart. Down the hall, a captive is being tortured by electric shock, his tormentor chatting amiably with him in American slang between jolts...
...second half brought more misery for the Crimson, and Lieber once again served as chief tormentor...
...second half brought more misery for the Crimson, and Lieber once again served as chief tormentor...
...cruel athletes, but this time Coach Klein suggests that he should fight back. And does he ever. The years of repressed anger rush to the surface, as Bobby visualizes all those people that have hurt him in the past. The result is a leaping, bone-crushing tackle of his tormentor that makes William "The Refrigerator" Perry look like the Maytag refrigerator man. Coach Klein, sensing the geyser of anger that he could harness, offers the waterboy a position on the team. Unfortunately, Bobby has to hide his moonlighting as a linebacker and college student from his disapproving, overprotective mother. Bobby...
Which isn't to say that paranoids, and the Clintons, don't have real enemies--or that some of those enemies aren't linked, sometimes in bizarre, uncanny ways. Consider the couple's current chief tormentor, independent counsel Starr. Last year, in a decision he later reversed under pressure from Republican lawmakers, Starr announced that he was leaving his job to become dean of the law and public policy schools at California's Pepperdine University. The chair Starr had set his sights on, as it happened, was endowed by a certain Richard Mellon Scaife, an archconservative Pennsylvania billionaire who also...