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Under Mark Brokaw's direction, the first act races along as cynical and funny, never dull or heavy. Silver's language is innovative, and his humor refreshing and barbed with commentary. Regarding Harold Pinter's Birthday Party; Arthur: "Who'd you play?" Todd: "The rapist." Arthur: "You were ten!" Todd: "It was private school." Or Arthur fearing implication for his molestation of Emma: Emma: "I had a memory." Arthur: "Don't dwell...

Author: By Thomas Madsen, | Title: Pterodactyls Never Manages to Soar | 11/3/1994 | See Source »

...next day at a press conference arranged by the U.S. embassy, which supplied a microphone and technicians. Speaking mainly in English, he urged FRAPH members to "put down" their arms and accept the return of Aristide to power -- sentiments greeted by an unbelieving crowd with shouts of "Liar! Killer! Rapist!" He left, protected from a howling, spitting crowd by U.S. military police. Which seems strange, since in early summer he had threatened to organize a guerrilla war to kill any foreign troops that dared to land in Haiti...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lying Down with Dogs | 10/17/1994 | See Source »

...honesty, people have very miserable sexual experiences but that's not rape, because that implies there's a rapist," she said. "It's dangerous when we start using 'rape' to label all these things because it trivializes its meaning...

Author: By Shirin Sinnar, | Title: Roiphe Criticizes Extreme Feminism | 10/14/1994 | See Source »

...heard screaming, "Don't harm my baby!" Jackson knows what happened next. Over the next several minutes she was beaten bloody with a mop handle and raped. The attacker was a neighbor who had apparently become infatuated with her. The woman, who survived, is 22. The accused rapist, Andre Green...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: When Kids Go Bad | 9/19/1994 | See Source »

Even so, the state has suffered from some vigilante-style abuses. In July 1993 the home of convicted child rapist Joseph Gallardo was burned to the ground after citizens in Snohomish County learned he was about to be paroled. "When things like that happen, you jeopardize the ability of the person to ever readjust to community life," says Stephen Bright of the Southern Center for Human Rights. Such a reaction "enhances the chance they'll return to crime," he warns. Civil libertarians contend that notification laws are unconstitutional and have the effect of illegally keeping people in custody after they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not in My Backyard! | 9/5/1994 | See Source »

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