Word: womanfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...longest, most harrowing rape scenes in Hollywood history, in which Sarah is spread-eagled on a Slam Dunk pinball machine and assaulted by three men. What happens throughout this good, fair film is the raising of many important questions about forcible sex. In the feminist age, can a woman display her sensuality as freely, even ( carelessly, as she does her intellect and ambition? If she does so, is she responsible for the prefeminist urges she triggers in men? Or is she just getting what she asked for, in a body language as old as the species? Can every...
...hottest movie debate since Fatal Attraction encouraged married men to keep their mistresses away from the kitchen cutlery. Says Sherry Lansing, who with Stanley Jaffe produced both films: "We're hoping that no one seeing The Accused will ever again believe that rape is sexy or that any woman asks...
Sometimes the bad guys get put in the docket: the bad guy lurking in any man ready to act on his suspicion that an attractive woman is his for the taking. Sometimes the good guys, like the Accused team, win a small victory for women: women who should not ever have to decide, on pain of assault, whether they are good women or bad ones, victims or vamps...
...into U.S. district court in nothing less bewitching than a floor-length turquoise gown, a silk-and-chiffon terno that is traditional Philippine wear. As she hoisted her presence up the courthouse steps, packs of demonstrators reared up to denounce her as the bloodsucker of the Philippine people. One woman bared false vampire fangs...
...companion of more than a dozen years, Hedda Nussbaum, 46, a onetime children's book editor whom Steinberg is alleged to have brutally battered. Last week the courtroom was riveted by a prosecutor's videotape made of Nussbaum after the pair were arrested last year. It showed a woman with the blank gaze of a zombie, covered with scars and bruises, her right leg bearing green ulcerations, and with several bones and joints misshapen from injuries that were never properly treated. Sitting up front every day, just behind Joel Steinberg, is Michelle Launders, 27, Lisa's natural mother...