Word: victimizer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Since Kay killed Jackie, the general public has reached a greater understanding of the potentially lethal relationship between an abuser and a victim--thanks in part to the endless examination of O.J. Simpson's volatile marriage to Nicole Brown Simpson. Police officers, judges, doctors and lawyers have begun to get educated about the "battered woman's syndrome"--the psychological dependency that keeps a spouse trapped in a violent relationship, repeatedly forgiving her abuser and even sometimes blaming herself for the attacks. In recent years, legal protections for victims of domestic abuse have also been dramatically strengthened in ways that might...
...realizing his deliriously original idea, Allen occasionally stumbles. Some of his transitions are abrupt, some of his jokes predictable. And after nearly three decades, it may be time to revise or retire his screen character. He's too old to keep playing a perpetually muddled romantic victim. But he wears his ambition winningly and, as a filmmaker, achieves a transcendence of his own, making something fresh and beguiling out of that middle-class, middlebrow angst he has so often explored...
However, boarding schools are not so apt as colleges to fall victim to the pervasive liberalism that defines our campus today. At college, liberalism seeks to define people by their race, culture or sexual orientation. The emphasis is on our differences; the goal is their separation. A small boarding school like St. Paul's tries to act as a family, where differences are recognized, appreciated and applauded, but a profound sense of what we have in common overrides our differences. At St. Paul's, a student is subjected to the "St. Paul's experience" above and beyond a "black experience...
...film into a hybrid of one of his "Home Alone" movies, featuring a drawn-out sequence of physical comedy. De Vil's henchmen Horace and Jasper play the Daniel Stern and Joe Pesci roles, as they are flung through windows and into frozen ponds. Cruella ends up the victim of much of this comic buffoonery, as she is kicked by a horse, squashed by an overweight hog, and immersed in a vat of molasses. This sequence is not particularly agonizing to watch, but it detracts from the movie's slightly more sophisticated approach to recreating the story...
...victim said yesterday that he realizes the CPD is in a difficult position...