Word: victimizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mickey Finn ploy? Yes, but the visitor had fallen victim to a new and dangerous twist. In the past two years, New York hustlers have drugged scores of affluent-looking men (and a few women) not with the usual chloral hydrate-a sedative that simply makes a person drunk more quickly-but with scopolamine. This nervous-system depressant is normally used as a preoperative drug. It is also an ingredient in some prescription eye drops...
Eliot's record is uninspiring only because of tough opposition, E-House coach Mike Elliott said. "We're a very strong team, but we're also a victim of House football circumstances," he added...
...production's first big surprise comes with its Ophelia (Ursula Drabek), whom Cain sees not as a shrinking victim of cruelty and circumstance--the usual interpretation--but as a strong and independent woman. Creating this Ophelia takes imaginative line-reading, a good deal of un-Shakespearean byplay that never made it into a script, and some outright cheating--for instance, an extra exchange of "Ophelia!" and "NO!" as Polonius tries to force his daughter to tell the King about Hamlet's visit to her chamber...
There was only one item on the agenda last week as seven Finnish Cabinet members gathered in emergency session in Helsinki's Government House: acceptance of a resignation letter written in the shaky hand of President Urho Kaleva Kekkonen, 81, a victim for the past few years of progressive hardening of the arteries. Although inevitable, Kekkonen's departure still shocked many of the 4.8 million Finns, who cannot remember any other presidential figure than the tall, bald, once athletic man who has guided Finland since...
...real estate broker in West Bloomfield, Mich., has traditionally bought a new car every two years. He purchased his fully equipped Lincoln Town Car for $13,000 in 1979. Last week Jensen returned to his dealer's showroom to eye the new Continental, but he quickly became another victim of what Detroit calls "sticker shock." The price on the car's window: $25,692. Says he: "Damn, that is expensive! It persuaded me to keep driving my '80 until it won't go any more. Then I'm going to buy a down-sized...