Word: victimizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trial has drawn wide publicity because of its sensational aspects, including the fact that six men were involved and that the rape occurred in the midst of cheering onlookers. The media attention has surely been personally damaging to the victim, but the ultimate value of the publicity to society may outweigh her pain...
...compelled to submit by force and against his will or by threat of bodily harm." (Intercourse with someone under 16 is also considered rape.) Thus, a prosecutor must prove two things to obtain a guilty verdict: 1) that sexual intercourse occurred, and 2) that it took place against the victim's will...
...well-muscled too fall victim to the exclusionary rules, quick to turn away the many yearning to eat free. For if beneficence is paramount before 6:15, afterwards, the Houses themselves are yearning to be Adams...
...wronged aristocracy, writes Olsen: "Well-chiseled faces, straight noses, full lips, darkly gleaming eyes, careful coiffures. Camelots old and new had never produced a more al luringly matched set." But that was only for show. Offstage, Coe tried to persuade friends to destroy evidence, Olsen says, and the oldest victim made Ruth exclaim, "She's much too ugly to be a convincing witness...
...dictionary defines rape as an "outrageous violation" and a victim as "someone badly used." It is to Olsen's great credit that, in a strangely hypnotic, grieving book, he provides these phrases with a human dimension. "Motiveless malignity" is a fine phrase in Othello; in contemporary life, evil generally has a reason, however perverted. Olsen has tracked it to its source. -By J.D. Reed