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Elisa's life became an excruciating alternation of happiness and horror. The four-year-old took the Friends School's screening examination and passed. But according to Montessori teacher Barbara Simmons, she also began telling people that her mother had locked her in a closet. On one occasion she volunteered, "Awilda hits me. I don't want to go to Awilda." Montessori principal Bryce says she reported suspected abuse to both the Brooklyn Bureau of Community Services and a child-abuse hot line--the CWA's second warning about Elisa. In response, Bryce has said, child-welfare workers made several...
MANY OF THE NAMES WERE BIBLICAL: Elijah, Jordan, Joshua. But the horror story that riveted America last week had the bloody pathos of Greek tragedy: a mother and two of her children slaughtered; one child ripped from her womb; another spared, murmuring, "Mommy hurt...
Attempting to capitalize on the horror, House Speaker Newt Gingrich said last week that the tragedy was the result of "the welfare state," which had produced "a drug-addicted underclass with no sense of humanity, no sense of civilization and no sense of the rules of life." But real life is more complex. Deborah Evans "was dying to have somebody to love her," recalls her cousin Carolyn Milani. Evans ran away from home after fighting constantly with her mother, acting out to gain the attention of her often absentee father...
Zahedi's impotence as a director also affects the film technically. Never graduating beyond the realm of home video, the camera sits on a tripod or occasionally gets plucked off its stand producing a dizzying effect, only to bounce on the camera operator's shoulder, creating the horror of nautical nausea...
...addition to being a vocal environmentalist, Saro-Wiwa was an accomplished poet, playwright, publisher and father of four. As a young person, Saro-Wiwa experienced and wrote about the horror of Nigeria's civil wars and tribal conflicts, leading him to advocate nonviolent protest against the military junta...