Word: watts
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...FATHER OF THOMAS HAMILTON, 65-year-old Thomas Watt, "can't live with" what happened in Dunblane and thinks he brought a monster into the world. Rather than indulging in these self-absorbed histrionics, Watt should feel shame for abandoning his son when the boy was only 18 months old and for never taking a bit of interest in his child in the years since. Monsters do not spring fully formed from a mother's womb. They become what they are over many years and after many wrong decisions. Had Watt stayed to bring up his son--or at least...
...accounts Hamilton was odd. The woman he always believed was his sister was, in reality, his mother. His father, Thomas Watt, 65, abandoned the family when Hamilton was 18 months old. He never took interest in him again until he learned, with shock, of the killings. "I can't live with this," Watt said. "I brought this monster into the world." It was a world that proved difficult for a man whose compelling life interest appeared to be youth leadership--but who was regarded in town as a pedophile. His attempts to organize boys' clubs ended when parents withdrew their...
SENTENCED. JAMES WATT, 58, Reagan-era Secretary of the Interior; to community service and a $5,000 fine; after pleading guilty to attempting to influence a grand jury looking into his lobbying activities; in Washington...
...with chaotic, simultaneous mumblings by the cast followed by a booming declaration of someone claiming to be God. Once the lights go up, the rest of the play is pure sugary sweetness. A group of overalls- and pigtail-clad performers engages in a bout of happy dancing and 100-watt smiling, not seen since Greg, Marcia and the Bunch donned the pastel bell-bottoms and harmonized to "Sunshine Day." One of the actors soon emerges with a cordless microphone and leads the rest of the group in singing the first of many toe-tapping, yet insipid songs with cheddary titles...
...great names--Meade Esposito, Stanley Steingut--swaggered toward a dread destiny. The bad guys in City Hall are in that mold: princes of darkness, Borgias of Brooklyn. The movie's obvious forebear is The Godfather, which apotheosized the dirty dealings of statesmen and Mafiosi in the richly upholstered, 10-watt throne room of Hades...