Word: victimized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard cagers continued to show about as much consistency as the fever chart of a malaria victim when after a clean sweep of Brown and Yale over the weekend, the hoopsters dropped a 66-54 game to lowly Dartmouth last night in Hanover...
...reputation of being a precarious person, a victim, a lovable mess. This seems exaggerated. Back at the Plaza, calm now, she is glad to be 30. During her twenties, she says, "I felt like a submarine with depth charges going off all around me." The heartbreak in her songs ("I've been cheated, been mistreated/ When will I be loved?") was real enough...
Strangest of all is that when Raines complains to Rental Agent Ava Gardner, she is told that those other apartments have been unoccupied for years. Is she going mad? Is she the victim of a bizarre plot by her lover (Chris Sarandon), a lawyer with shady connections? Poor girl, if only she had seen such essays in pop demonology as The Exorcist and The Omen, she would realize that she is simply, almost literally, going to hell...
...twelve murders sprang from some aspect of the oppression of women. Euphemie Lacoste, victim of an arranged marriage, was accused of poisoning her husband in 1844. While the bourgeoisie in the reign of Louis Philippe prattled of love matches, Euphemie's father signed a marriage contract for his convent-bred 22-year-old daughter. The husband was Henri Lacoste, the girl's 68-year-old great-uncle, who was riddled with syphilis...
...have to do this with humor because there's no other way to bring the show off without nudity or obscenity, explains Fred Perna, 40, who both produces the show and plays the crucifixion victim. Perna joined the troupe because my sexual guilt was making me an alcoholic. I was promiscuous, but I think I'm a kind, gentle person. Why do I need the guilt...