Word: victimizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the living Marilyn was all things to all men, her corpse has taken on its strangest incarnation of all as a feminist icon. It all started in 1972 when Gloria Steinem wrote an essay on Marilyn Monroe for Ms. Magazine. The piece portrayed Monroe as a pre-feminist victim of male exploitation. Appropriately titled "The Woman Who Died Too Soon," it was later anthologized in Steinem's book Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions. It has now become the basis for her latest work...
...someone on an equal wave of nuttiness. And he helped channel the rage in me." Stone made a short film for Scorsese's class called Last Year in Viet Nam, about a vet wandering the New York streets; in another, Michael and Marie, Oliver's father played the victim. "Oliver was alienated, sarcastic and brooding," says his film-school friend Stanley Weiser, who is collaborating with Stone on a script about Wall Street crime. "A real macho man who carried the torture of Viet Nam with him but never talked about...
Although conditions were less harsh in France than in some other parts of Europe, the cold snap there caused a death toll of at least 31. One potential French victim of the cold was saved in the northern city of Amiens when a vagrant discovered a newborn girl abandoned at the city dump. He called for help, and the girl was rushed to the hospital. Doctors rated her chances of survival excellent and named her Violette because of her purplish complexion when she was first brought...
...even by their own account; they hoped eventually to earn enormous commissions by brokering trade of all sorts between the U.S. and Iran. To hear Ghorbanifar and Khashoggi tell the story, they raised money to set up the arms sales as a kind of opening wedge and then fell victim to American duplicity that cost them millions. "I have lost $3.7 million of my own money, my own hard-earned money!" screams Ghorbanifar, waving his arms wildly in an interview with TIME. "Be ki begam! Be ki begam!" That is a Farsi phrase meaning "Whom can I tell?" that...
Swimming against Harvard--which was coming off a dissapointing loss to Army and gearing up for a big meet with Princeton--Dartmouth may have been a victim of circumstance...