Word: victimize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Healy has worked for the past three-and-a-half years as city manager without a contract and always at the risk of falling victim to political clashes between the the liberal and conservative factions which evenly divide the city council...
...murder trial begins next week, however, the focus will be not on the suspect but on his victim. Whatever the immediate cause of the killing, Cooperman's case has already exposed a tale of sex and international intrigue. Defense Attorney Alan May argues that Cooperman, 48, was a secret agent for Viet Nam. Indeed, Hanoi has accused the CIA of masterminding the death. Cooperman's friends and relatives ridicule such allegations, but they too think the shooting was political: the professor's well-known sympathy for the Communist regime in Hanoi made him highly unpopular among Vietnamese immigrants in Fullerton...
...Cooperman's, defends the physicist as "a humanitarian" and claims he was "assassinated" by "right-wing military Vietnamese death squads" in Southern California. Cooperman's widow bitterly resents the allegations of espionage and homosexuality. "I'm being asked continually to defend my husband," she says. "I'm not the victim any more. I'm the accused...
...hope that its management will buy the shares at a premium. Pickens denies being a greenmailer, saying that he made a sincere bid to take over Phillips and that all company shareholders will benefit from his actions because the value of their stock will rise. The most venerable greenmail victim of 1984 was Mickey Mouse. Saul Steinberg, a New York City financier, bought 12% of the stock of Walt Disney Productions and then sold it to the company for a profit of $32 million...
...monkeys. Later, going to testify at Aziz's trial, she must drive through a crowd raging at her, and a man in a monkey costume leaps on her car, pressing his face menacingly against the window. Is it this echo that impels her to testify that she was the victim of a hallucination and thus free Aziz from his anguish? The movie is silent on the point, allowing us to make what we will of the image...