Word: victimize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Atlanta, Kathryn McDonald stoically faced TV cameras to declare that her husband Lawrence, a staunchly conservative Democratic Congressman and national chairman of the ultraright John Birch Society, had been the victim of "an act of deliberate assassination." She charged that it was no accident that "the leading anti-Communist in the American Government" had been on a plane that was "forced into Soviet territory" and shot down. She linked her husband's "murder" with the assassination attempt against Pope John Paul II, blaming both on the Soviets...
Rape crisis centers usually have counselors on call 24 hours a day. They stay with the victim during the medical exam and assist her with the police report. Reporting the rape is important both to put repeat offenders in jail and for therapy. "It's getting back," says Gail Abarbanel, director of the Santa Monica (Calif.) Rape Treatment Center. "To discourage women from reporting is a bad message that implies the victim had a role in the rape...
...hardest rapes for women to report are "acquaintance rapes" or "date rapes," an increasingly common practice on college campuses. In these attacks, which represent about half of all reported rapes, the victim knows her assailant, sometimes just to say hello to and sometimes on a friendlier basis. That makes the victim fear people will regard her as guilty in some way. Says Martha Burt, research associate at the Urban Institute in Washington: "Women end up being their own worst punishers...
...about whether or not it's a 'real rape' that is similar to society's stereotype." Says Kilpatrick: "Around here, we refer to a real rape as the rape of a nun on her way to Sunday vespers who gets assaulted by Hell's Angels. But.if you have a victim who had been drinking or if the victim knew the guy even a little, you get some negative attitudes...
...Southern belle was not a dream of mine at all," says Mariel Hemingway, 21. "But then the more I thought of it, the more I thought, 'Why not?' " Hemingway had gone from playing the trim, muscular pentathlete in Personal Best to portraying the voluptuous playmate and murder victim in the soon-to-be-released Star 80, with nude scenes in each. So a mere adjustment in her accent would seem a snap for her first stage role, in The Palace of Amateurs, which opens in two weeks in Dallas. At first, though, the Idaho-born actress may have...