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...most vicious play of the game came after the final buzzer, when a UMD goon almost took the head off freshman Stuart Swenson (a St. Cloud, Minn. native) with a brutal slash. Swenson had finished a hard check before the final buzzer, but was luckily able to escape without an injury...

Author: By David S. Griffel, | Title: Icemen Get Revenge at Minnesota-Duluth | 12/20/1993 | See Source »

...next day defense attorney Jill Lansing also tacked a picture on the board, this one showing the body of a prepubescent Lyle frontally naked from the neck down. She went on to describe a toxic environment where two depraved, vicious parents turned their sons into helpless prisoners and sexual playthings. Lansing recounted testimony of the brothers being punched, belt- whipped and molested by their parents. "You need to decide what was going on in Erik and Lyle Menendez's mind that night," she said, "before you can decide what kind of crime was committed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Waiting for the Verdicts | 12/20/1993 | See Source »

...Communities are suffering from a vicious tautology: failure that feeds upon failure," Gore said. "The result: communities where drug dealers are role models and where kids plan their own funerals...

Author: By Sandhya R. Rao, | Title: Gore Advocates Empowerment | 12/7/1993 | See Source »

...would not be an exaggeration to call Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf home to the most vicious dialogue in the history of the American theatre. In 23 years of marriage, George and Martha have not only learned how to torment each other, they have learned to do it with style. These two don't just carp about character flaws or accuse one another of wrong-doing: each refutes the other's very right to existence. Early in the first act, Martha says to George, "I can't even see you...I haven't even been able...

Author: By Vineeta Vijayaraghavan, | Title: Before War of the Roses | 11/18/1993 | See Source »

Rappers aren't the first pop stars to cross from outlaw poses to real bloodletting. Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols stabbed his girlfriend to death. Squeaky Claudine Longet, a vanilla songstress of the '60s and '70s, shot her boyfriend, a killing that she called accidental and a jury called criminally negligent homicide. But for the most part singers, even the ones who like to pal with mobsters, have been content to leave gunplay to the pros. Not gangsta rappers. In a world where it can seem as if everybody's "strapped" -- meaning armed -- the rapper Spice 1 bragged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shootin' Up the Charts | 11/15/1993 | See Source »

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