Word: victimizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time the speech was reported in the weekly newspaper Literaturnaya Gazeta, Yevtushenko had fallen victim to the very timidity he had criticized. The journal deleted his references to Stalin's murderous rule and party favoritism. Yevtushenko professed himself unconcerned by the heavy-handed editing. Said he: "My words were addressed to writers, not the party. I just wanted them to speak their minds...
...feeling in the stomach. In the best of the season's segments to date, Season Hubley played a convicted murderer who attempts a prison escape by hiding in a coffin about to be buried. Director Thomas Carter toyed masterfully with the audience's emotions, turning the protagonist from tearful victim to scheming bitch and back again in seconds. The half-hour story moved like a rifle shot (the inferior original was a full hour), and the grisly ending packed a wallop...
Lown and Chazov tore off their suit jackets, sprang from the podium and, along with other IPPNW physicians in the room, gave the fallen man cardiopulmonary resuscitation. The victim, Lev Novikov, 60, was put on a stretcher and taken to an Oslo hospital, where officials reported that he had suffered a heart attack. Novikov was later described as out of danger. Skeptics said that his collapse may have been staged, an allegation that Lown called "perverse." Concluded Chazov: "To win over death--you have now witnessed that it goes well for Soviets and Americans to cooperate in this task...
WITHIN THIS RAWLSIAN framework a reflexive defense of pornographic freedom becomes utterly meaningless. Why should pornography be legal before anyone knows whether he or she will be a victim of pornography...
...name was Aniello Dellacroce, which in Italian means "little lamb of the cross," and he took pleasure in killing people. "He likes to peer into a victim's face, like some kind of dark angel, at the moment of death," a federal agent once said of the Mafia chieftain. As underboss of the Gambino clan, the most powerful of New York's five families, he was a member and chief enforcer of "the Commission," the 11-member council that reputedly oversees organized crime around the U.S. Occasionally disguised as a priest under the alias of Father O'Neill, a play...