Word: victimizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eyes bulging, long neck turning like a periscope, sang like a carny geek who could not digest his chicken. Then there were the songs. "Psycho killer, qu'est-ce que c'est/ Run, run, run, run away," Byrne would blurt, contriving to sound simultaneously like the murderer and his victim. Perfect new-wave icons, then: psychotic preppies. The pure products of America in the process of going blissfully crazy...
...Whitehall, the hospital of a fashionable abortionist, a painfully trendy suburban restaurant. Among the suspects: the dead politician's vapid second wife, pregnant with his child even though she has had a lover for years; her con-man brother, who has moved into the politician's room; the victim's conniving mother, who mourns the loss of prewar manners more than the loss of her son. The politician himself is a mystery. Why, Dalgliesh wonders, did he suddenly resign his government post, experience a religious conversion during which, it is suggested, stigmata appeared on his body, and come...
Hindawi denied he tried to blow up the plane. He claimed he was the victim of an Israeli intelligence attempt to discredit Syria and said he was paid $250,000 in Damascus to smuggle contraband from Britain to Tel Aviv...
...CITY'S REACTION is an all too frightening example of a superstitious response to a complex social problem. To say that drunk driving caused the death is to admit that the tragedy is inexplicable. To blame the victim, on the other hand, is to reassure ourselves that we live in a just and harmonious world, a world in which no one who follows the proper path is victimized. Therefore, New Yorkers must believe that the real enemy is not the drunk driver, but the teenage drinker, the proverbial sinner upon whom God wreaks vengeance...
...amount of concern showered on Chambers and his family further emphasizes the notion that he was the victim, not Levin. The poor chap never got enough attention from his parents, the tabloids tell us; and, what's more, he had the grave misfortune of shuttling from prep school to prep school because of failing grades. Not only did the New York Post run a front page picture depicting the grief of his parents, but it also gave top billing to an interview in which Chambers said, "I have no ill feeling toward Jennifer or her family...