Word: victimizer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...astronauts, on the other hand, will not revisit the Spacelab system until the new space shuttle is launched in 1980. The Soviets have another advantage in space: the "hunter-killer" satellite that can track an orbiting vehicle, sidle up to it, and detonate like a hand grenade, blasting its victim to bits. The satellite killer's main potential target: Big Bird...
...occurs almost exclusively in women in their 40s' and 50s, and slowly destroys the victim's liver...
...Washington Post's Ben Bradlee. "It's wrong. It's misguided. We wouldn't do it." Yet some might. "We're rethinking our whole position," says Dave Lanzettel, city editor of the Portland (Me.) Express, which last year identified a 27-year-old rape victim. The Boston Globe names names when the victim is well known. Says Ombudsman Charles Whipple: "If the Governor's daughter were raped, don't think we wouldn't print...
Obermayer concedes that he will suppress the name of a rape victim in a few instances, if, for example, she is under 18 or if disclosure would endanger her, but insists that no amount of public opposition can change his intention to stop granting such anonymity automatically. So far, his resolve has not been tested...
...film's narrative. Underneath the surface wit is Innaurato's portrait of Verna's aching loneliness and cultural malaise. When Verna, for the sake of her nonexistent career, jilts an Army captain whom she loves, she ceases to be a colorful eccentric and becomes a tragic victim of her bankrupt, fan-magazine values. By the time the film reaches its ironic denouement, Innaurato's nostalgic affection for Verna's old-fashioned innocence has turned into pity...