Word: victimize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Midwestern senatorial candidate by agents of an Arab oil state. The true purpose of these cliches and intrigues is to supply Power with some paranoiac melodrama of the kind that is nowadays never absent from movies about American politics. Pete may be involved, either as unwitting coconspirator or victim, in something more menacing to the commonwealth than a few dirty political tricks. These dawning hints of complicity give him an excuse to renounce political expedience and square himself with his former wife (Julie Christie) and his sometime mentor (Gene Hackman), who function here as the voices of liberal conscience...
Light also testified that he won an acquittal for Billy ("Wild Bill") Cutola, a Teamsters Union official who, he said, shot a suspected informant in the head. According to Light, the victim was stuffed into a 55-gal. drum, which Cutola then dumped into the East River. As Light tells it, the body's gases caused the drum to rise to the surface. "Next time, I'll know better," a jocular Cutola reportedly told Light after he was cleared of the murder charge. "I'll cut his stomach open...
...technology? As it turns out, Atwood's look at the future takes place under conditions that Orwell would recognize. Repression is the order of the new day in The Handmaid's Tale. But the villains in this piece are not the ones that Orwell accused, and the most prominent victim and hero is a woman...
Giuliani believes that the legal system has come to favor the rights of the victimizer over the victim. "During the '50s and '60s," he says, "we socialized the responsibility for crime. We broke down the line between explanation and excuses, and explanations became excuses." The individual, he stresses, not the group, must be held morally responsible. "For purposes of ethics and of law," he says fervently, "we elevate human beings by holding them responsible. Ultimately, you diminish human individuality and importance when you say, 'Oh, well, you're not really responsible for what you did. Your parents are responsible...
...zombie drug, resembling dry black dirt, contains toads, sea worms, lizards, tarantulas, and human bones. When rubbed on someone's skin, (as the Haitian masseuse did to Duke), the victim becomes nauseous and begins to have breathing difficulties in a number of hours. Following a pins and needles sensation, the victim becomes paralyzed, his lips turning blue from lack of oxygen. Soon, his metabolism is so low that his condition is indistinguishable from death...