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What to do about these attacks of violence? Spurred by police statistics and women's rights groups, some state legislatures are now rewriting their rape laws. To convict a rapist, most states require evidence to support the victim's claim: cuts, bruises or torn clothing, a medical report stating physical penetration and sometimes even an eyewitness who can identify the assailant. Believing that such rules were making it too tough to get convictions, Connecticut and New York recently repealed them...
...cast at the Loeb is almost uniformly excellent; no performance is worse than good. The scene is set skillfully at the onset by a London street singer (Scott Taylor), who tells of Mac the Knife, a ruthless, but versatile killer, robber, and rapist with an ability bordering enchantment to escape the police. Mac (Christopher Reeve) is about to marry Polly Peachum (Jessica Richman), the naive, though self-confidant, daughter of Jonathan Peachum (Colgate Salsbury), the man who coordinates all the panhandling in London...
...Accused Rapist Thomas W. Tucker had been told of his rights to silence and counsel-but not that he could have a court-appointed lawyer if he was unable to pay for one. His interrogation came before the Miranda decision. His trial came afterward, and none of his statements at the time of arrest were introduced. But damaging evidence came from a witness who, Tucker had told his police questioners, was a friend who would corroborate his alibi. Tucker's attorneys argued that the name of the witness had been obtained as the "fruit" of the improper interrogation...
...painted transvestites to the "Christmas-tree man," whose head, coat, shut and pants are festooned with tinsel and trinkets. Snaking stealthily through this Brueghelian scene in search of likely prey are a host of Manhattan's pickpockets, strong-arm muggers, and flimflam artists, as well as an occasional rapist...
Bullins wrote The Reluctant Rapist over the past ten years in between working on the most extraordinary project any American playwright has ever undertaken, a series of 20 full-length plays on the black experience in America that Bullins calls his "Twentieth Century Cycle." Comparing the five plays in the cycle already completed (In the Wine Time, In New England Winter, The Duplex, The Fabulous Miss Marie, and Home Boy) with The Reluctant Rapist it becomes painfully clear that there is no transitive law of genius between playwrights and novelists...