Word: victimized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Schleyer was the tenth target of West German terrorists to die in the past year. Another victim was Captain Jurgen Schumann, 37, pilot of the skyjacked Lufthansa jet. In a fit of irrational fury, the terrorist leader, who called himself "Walter Mahmud," killed Schumann with a single pistol shot when the plane was on the ground in Aden, Southern Yemen. Schumann's body was pushed down the plane's emergency exit chute at Mogadishu. Had it not been for the skill of the rescuing commandos, many, if not all, of the terrified hostages might have suffered similar fates. According...
...crooner, than he filed a $2 million complaint against Los Angeles Times Columnist Jody Jacobs. In an upcoming episode of Laugh-In, Ol' Blue Eyes goes after splashier revenge-by pouring a can of green paint (actually, dyed Cream of Wheat cereal) over a Rona Barrett lookalike. The victim: Actress June Gable, who plays a gossip-caster named Ms. Groana on the show. "He dumped this bucket of slime and let it shlunk all over me," said Gable. "Then he came down from the scaffold and said, 'Hey, babe, are you all right?' " Gable had no hard...
Bakke is not the only victim to cry halt. A number of others have also gone to court with charges of reverse discrimination. Among them...
...mustered the wisdom to pick Diane Keaton as his star. In the role of Theresa Dunn, a Catholic schoolteacher who cruises singles bars at night, Keaton is everything the rest of this movie is not: provocative, affecting, scary. She creates a heroine who is at once sexual aggressor and victim, lady and tramp, and she relentlessly savages most pat notions about the nature of womanhood. It is a spectacularly daring performance whose meaning sadly eludes this film...
...result. The director undoubtedly made this change for a specific reason; by saving the murder of Theresa until the final scene, Brooks was able to exploit the effective technique of timing a flashing strobe light in her bedroom with the rapidly mounting and then slowing heartbeat of the victim. In so doing, however, Brooks traps himself in to the quandary of suddenly thrusting the murderer into the narrative without any kind of introduction. A vagrant cowboy type appears out of nowhere, picks up Theresa at Goodbar's and slays her--all within the brief span of a few minutes, asking...