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...quiet of suburban Los Angeles, Moosa Hanoukai picked up a pipe wrench and bludgeoned his wife Manijeh to death. When the businessman did not contest the facts, prosecutors assumed they had an easy second-degree murder conviction. But Hanoukai's attorney James Blatt mounted this defense: his client was a victim of husband battering and 25 years of abuse. Furthermore, because of the stringencies of an Iranian-Jewish culture, Hanoukai felt trapped: he killed Manijeh because he was not allowed to divorce her. The jury empathized and found Hanoukai guilty only of voluntary manslaughter. Instead of 15 years to life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oprah! Oprah in the Court! | 6/6/1994 | See Source »

...because they stop paying attention to detail." Holmes recalls Bundy's words: "You learn what you need to know to kill and take care of the details, like changing a tire. The first time you're careful; the 30th time you can't remember where you put the lug wrench...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dances with Werewolves | 4/4/1994 | See Source »

This said, there is therefore something appealing about an unambitious movie, one without pretentions of grandeur. "Angie" could easily have slipped into that overworked category of "heart warming" movies, the ones that would lavish overweening sentiment on the death of a pet if it would wrench a single tear from the audience. It could have, but luckily it doesn...

Author: By Jeannette A. Vargas, | Title: Babes in Bensonhurst | 3/3/1994 | See Source »

...inclined I tend to lose it than confront my mind." Of course it wouldn't be a true rock album without references to drugs, which are ample. Yet most of the songs harken back to the theme of relationships, how men treat women, and how betrayal and pain can wrench them apart. With the exception of a guest appearance by Marcy Mays, all tracks are sung by Dulli, whose voice is pretty average. Nevertheless he makes up for this blandness with an exceptional delivery, here biting some of his lines, there almost seeming to sing around the words...

Author: By James B. Loeffler, | Title: Boy Meets Girl, Again | 12/2/1993 | See Source »

...expected play with his cousin Henry (Macaulay Culkin) convince him that he is skating on thin ice, at times literally. But to grownups, Henry appears so harmless, and Mark himself has been acting so unstable since his mother's death, that no one will listen to him. Will Mark wrench the scales from the world's eyes, or will Henry hoodwink humanity with his sheep's clothing...

Author: By Edward P. Mcbride, | Title: Killer Culkin | 10/7/1993 | See Source »

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