Word: victimizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cruising horrifies from the start. Explicit killing supersedes explicit homosexuality on the screen. The killer cruises a victim--picks him up--in a hellish bar and they move on to a sleazy hotel. There, the victim admires his sleek, naked body in a mirror, flexing his muscles while the killer, visible in the mirror, lurks in a shadowy corner. The mirror dominates these men, Friedkin implies. They are narcissistic; they love themselves and they love physical replicas of themselves, mirror images...
Paul Keating, a freelance photographer whose pictures have appeared in TIME for more than six years-often, and as recently as last week, on this page-died last week at 27. He was fatally shot while going to the aid of a mugging victim on a New York City street, an act that was typical of his generosity. "Paul was a shy, kind and sensitive man," says Picture Editor Arnold Drapkin. "You could give him almost any assignment, but he was particularly good at putting subjects at ease and capturing their distinctive spirit." TIME and its readers have lost...
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Meanwhile, the Kremlin has apparently targeted the next victim in its campaign against dissidents in the Soviet Union. Lev Kopelev, 67, an internationally known scholar of German literature, was accused in Sovietskaya Rossia of turning his Moscow flat "into a nest of ideological subversion and a place for meetings with Western emissaries." The paper also charged that Kopelev, a Jew who spent ten years in the Gulag under Stalin, "hates his homeland" and is "an enemy of the socialist system...
...action. A bobsled has crashed on the Lake Placid Olympic run, the longest, fastest, most difficult and dangerous racing course of its kind in the world. Zigzag, an S turn that slams sleds at nearly 70 m.p.h. through two 60° turns in 335 ft., has claimed yet another victim...