Word: victimizer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Impatience, I believe, would make for a much better virtue. I am not a victim of the destruction of our American moral fabric. I have simply concluded that impatience affords one a far greater amount of time in which to accomplish both the trivial and the significant...
Until last week, Palestinian officials were openly worried that a new intifadeh would be directed at them as much as, or instead of, the Israelis. The strongest warning came in July, when Arafat's gendarmes claimed a seventh torture casualty, provoking an anti-P.A. riot in the victim's hometown of Nablus. When the trouble spread to nearby Tulkarem, Palestinian security suppressed the unrest by shooting and killing a protester. The revolt sent shock waves through the P.A. and raised concerns that other insurrections would follow...
...given us the butch heroine--at once babe, district attorney and driving-men-crazy. She can be a victim, in, say, Thelma & Louise, an outlaw fantasy in which the women's suicide is seen as a magnificent screw-you gesture. Or she can be a victor, in Waiting to Exhale, where most of the guys are so lame and preening that there's little triumph in outsmarting them. The set piece in both films was blowing up an automobile: sexual revenge as car-nage. But that was not nearly so explosive as the smoulder of Sharon Stone's sexual menace...
...Extreme Measures, the bodies are still warm and kicking. Also writhing and babbling, at least in the case of one victim who escapes from his medical abductors and turns up in a New York City trauma room presided over by Dr. Guy Luthan (Hugh Grant). There the poor fellow sets all the diagnostic dials to spinning inexplicably. Not to mention Luthan's highly ethical brain. For the man dies in mysteriously untreatable agony, and then his body disappears before a proper autopsy can be performed. Investigating, Luthan soon finds himself conspired against--with his job, a fellowship, life itself...
...Barnard took the heart of a 25-year-old woman, the victim of a road accident, and placed it in the chest of a 55-year-old man to perform the first heart transplant. The recipient died of pneumonia 18 days later, but at the time, Dr. Michael DeBakey, who consulted on Boris Yeltsin's surgery last week, declared it to be "a great achievement." Suffering from arthritis, Barnard retired in 1983. Since then he has written a number of novels. His latest book, The Donor, was just published in England. Barnard spends a lot of time...