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...That means compromise, as one of Stern's clients, whom we will call Lucy, quickly found. She was 37 and divorced and was after the sort of man who sets hearts pounding on L.A. Law. She was introduced to Nigel, who was pleasant in every way, except, oh, horror, he was bald, and Lucy's vision of a dreamboat did not include an absence of hair. At first she was cold to Nigel's advances. But gradually her heart warmed, and last December they were married...
...show bullets," says Foster, "just basic human cruelty -- what happens when people are in a room together. It's not inhuman, which is why it's so scary." By then, the moviegoer -- a witness-voyeur, just like the bystanders -- is ready to have his prejudices twisted from compassion to horror. "We wanted to lull the audience and then turn things around," Topor explains. "We were saying, 'As a spectator, you're part of the problem. What would you have done...
...convincing Bush went, was the fact that Dukakis was being deceptive about his past, trying to deny his liberalism, to mask the menace to the nation presented by his softness on crime and defense. If Ailes could make that case to Bush, then the Pledge issue, the Horton horror stories, the A.C.L.U. membership (clashing with Dukakis' nonideological pose), would make sense to Bush as defensive actions against the broad assault of Dukakis...
Twenty years ago this weekend, a Yale senior defensive back named Edward Franklin let a pass fly into a Harvard receiver's hands just inside the goal line with no time left on the clock, and watched in horror as history was made. A famous Crimson headline reported the results: "Harvard Beats Yale...
Chastened authorities who inspected the two-story, four-bedroom Ecclesia house discovered 53 other children, ages three months to 16 years, living in Dickensian horror. Behind the building's curtain covered windows, the children were kept in rooms strewn with sleeping bags but no beds. There was only one working toilet, no refrigerator, and the only food was some tomatoes and a head of lettuce. The youngsters were malnourished, and most had bruises, welts and wounds. "It was Lisa Steinberg times 50," said Bart Wilson, a manager of the Oregon children's services division, alluding to the six-year...