Word: victimized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...permissive." In Madison, Wis.. Dane County Judge Archie Simonson released a rapist, 15, into the custody of his family. Madison, the judge explained, is a sexually permissive community where women wear see-through blouses. The kid was only reacting "normally," said the judge, though the 16-year-old victim was wearing an unprovocative sweater. But surely these and similar arguments, which go to any length to hold society and not the individual accountable, are glib and shallow...
...zone, ghetto residents often eat and sleep on the floor to avoid the stray bullets whizzing through their windows. Joe, 17, a former Crip who has gone straight because he is tired of "hustlin'," says he was always stalking a rival gang member or a potential robbery victim. "Whenever I was shootin' [had a gun], I had someone in mind. If I couldn't get him, I'd get his partner or a substitute." He regrets a murder for which he was never prosecuted. "I took someone's life," Joe reminisces. "He could...
...companies have in the fomenting of protest against nuclear power?" or "How much like George Orwell's Animal Farm will the 'ideal' state be?" In the end it may just be best not to delve too deeply into Luscomb's beliefs and decide whether we agree lest we fall victim to the same riduculing or harassing frame of mind as those 1920's reactionaries who sought to restrain the needed reforms of society, economics and politics that Luscomb and her ilk fought for, even when they didn't always see their dreams fulfilled in their lifetime. It is, after...
...sidetracking the proposed Agency for Consumer Advocacy. A bill to set one up squeaked through a House committee last month by only a single vote, and the word is out in Washington that the agency is dead. Says Representative Benjamin Rosenthal, a New York Democrat: "This bill is the victim of the most intense lobbying campaign in the 15 years I've been here...
WIDERBERG provides two compelling portraits of men of flawed character behind the socially acceptable role of public servant. One is Lt. Hult, the victim's sidekick, a vicious bully who proudly wears his uniform on his day off. The other is the Commissioner, who presents a slick media image but is completely ineffective when presented with the crisis that ends the film. Both are scoundrels, but they are also cops, which blinds most people to their failings. Widerberg will have no such nonsense, and therein lies the strength of Man on the Roof...