Word: victimizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other Johnson signified J. Seward's six litigious children from his two previous marriages, excised from the old man's will shortly before his death in 1983 at the age of 87. Was Basia a sorceress who abused and then fleeced a victim of senile dementia? Or were the children, all of them financially independent, avid for the $500 million at stake? Barbara Goldsmith, a journalist who specializes in histories of family distress (Little Gloria . . . Happy At Last), unearths a scandalous past of suicide attempts, drug addiction, incest and accusations of attempted murder. What the plaintiffs wanted, she shows...
...apparently, knitting tiny garments for Goering's baby. Seems a bit much . . . After dinner we had a long discussion with a famous zoologist about the best way to get rid of Adolf. He said that in India natives use tigers' whiskers chopped very fine and mixed with food. The victim dies a few days later and nobody can detect the cause. But where do we find a tiger's whiskers...
...Gorman, then sued Swaggart over another whistle-blowing incident. Gorman said Swaggart had lied by accusing him of repeated instances of adultery when, in fact, he was guilty ) of only one. That, said Gorman, was worth $90 million in damages. Responds Swaggart: "I think I'm more of a victim than anything else...
...portrayed as an adult by a wonderfully wary actor named Derek de Lint) keeps running into other witnesses to the assault and its aftermath: the underground fighter who was one of the assassins; the woman who helped move the murdered man's body; even the son of the victim. Indeed, Anton, without seeming quite aware of what he is doing, marries a woman who looks like the Resistance heroine with whom he shared a cell on the night of the assault and who, it is revealed, also participated in it (both are played, with a spirit that warms this cool...
Brandt, 73, who had been SPD leader since 1964, fell victim to the intense feuding between leftists and moderates that has virtually paralyzed the party. The crowning controversy was his effort to appoint a 30-year-old Greek emigre named Margarita Mathiopoulos as the party's chief spokeswoman. Not only did she not belong to the SPD, she was not even a German citizen. Brandt's successor will be Hans-Jochen Vogel, 61, the party's parliamentary leader...