Word: victimizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...criticism of the election was that in 384 of the 1,500 districts, party hacks ran unopposed. Those who ran alone, however, still had to collect 50% of the vote. The most prominent victim: Yuri Solovyov, the Communist Party boss of the Leningrad region and a nonvoting member of the Politburo. Though Solovyov ran unopposed, almost two-thirds of the voters crossed out his name, and he lost. The mayor of Kiev also ran unopposed and lost. So did that city's , Communist Party boss...
...nine days! Three hundred forty-nine days!" she screams. "Bite on your hat, anything to keep from sobbing!" Few in the audience at Moscow's Sovremennik Theater stifle the emotion inspired by such searing scenes from Eugenia Ginzburg's memoirs of the Gulag, Journey into the Whirlwind. An innocent victim of the Stalinist purges, the heroine endures humiliating interrogations, strip searches and endless nights during which she covers her ears to block out the cries of the tortured. In a final, chilling tableau, she even welcomes assignment to the labor camps as a liberation. Viewers leave speaking in hushed tones...
Accidents usually accelerate John Irving's antic plots and keep his readers tuned for what happens next. A Prayer for Owen Meany takes a somewhat different approach. Framed by the myth of victim as redeemer, the book removes guesswork without reducing expectations. One knows going in that the mischievous author is staging a kind of "Gospel According to Charlie Brown." But anyone familiar with Irving's mastery of narrative technique, his dark humor and moral resolve also knows his fiction is cute like...
...Lawrence, ECAC tournament champion and the number-three seed in the East, was the victim of the biggest first-round upset. Wisconsin (West #6) dumped the Saints in Canton, N.Y., on their home ice in straight games. Wisconsin faces Minnesota (West #2) in Minneapolis in the quarterfinals...
...opportunities and dilemmas created by the new genetic knowledge begin even before birth. It is already possible, through a variety of prenatal tests, to determine whether a child will be a boy or a girl, retarded or crippled, or the victim of some fatal genetic disorder. The question of what to do with that information runs squarely into the highly charged issue of abortion. Many could sympathize with a woman who chooses to terminate a pregnancy rather than have a baby doomed to a painful struggle with, say, Tay- Sachs disease or Duchenne muscular dystrophy. But what about the mother...