Word: victimizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Statistics show capital punishment does not deter crime. What use, then, does it hope to fulfill? Criminals don't learn lessons from being killed. Killing a criminal doesn't bring back his victim. Perhaps its purpose is not to punish a criminal's guilt but to satisfy society's lust for revenge. The late Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas wrote in his autobiography, "Capital punishment is barbaric...its only value is the organism of delight it produces in the public...
This disbelief is even built into our judicial process. Recently, television viewers across the nation were given the opportunity to witness the ludicrous level of skepticism which greets a plaintiff in a rape case. The victim of the New Bedford gang rape had her "character" placed under glass and combed backwards and forwards day after day after day: meanwhile, no one, except a few lone voices, had the acuity to openly question the relevance of the woman's previous behavior to what transpired on the night of the attack. What does it matter what kind of person she was before...
...attention, but the boss seemed to be spending an unusual amount of time with her. They checked into the same hotels on business trips, shared limousines and spent late nights working together. The two strongly denied the charges of a romance, and Cunningham today insists that she was the victim of office gossips who envied her position. Bowing to pressure inside and outside the company, Bendix officials forced Cunningham to resign in October 1980. Less than two years later, she and Agee were married...
...Station, the opening skit, is an edgy conversation between a perplexed London taxi-fleet dispatcher and a maddeningly vague, or vaguely mad, cab driver (Kevin Conway). One for the Road, set in an unidentified police state, offers the horrific spectacle of the torturer as business executive, bantering with his victims as he sends them off to be flogged, raped or killed. In A Kind of Alaska, a middle-aged woman (Dianne Wiest) awakes from a 29-year siege of sleeping sickness to confront a reality at pathetic odds with her memories and hallucinations. Dispatcher, torture victim, woman, all struggle valiantly...
...role could come off as a mere foil for Nora to rebel against. It is to Dalton's credit that his Torvald is not only real, but also sympathetic; we understand how Nora cold once have loved him. The intensity Dalton brings to his role paints Torvald as a victim of his own insecurity; his seeming intolerance is a result of fear of imperfection rather than stern, unflinching cruelty...