Word: actualizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...award in November 1982. The Supreme Court upheld that decision by a 6-to-3 vote and in doing so underscored the vital role of appellate courts in reviewing libel actions. Writing for the majority, Justice John Paul Stevens argued that judges must satisfy themselves that "the record establishes actual malice with convincing clarity...
...defending the right of free expression in published criticism, the court reassured journalists and lawyers who feared that the Justices might undermine their 1964 ruling in New York Times vs. Sullivan. That decision established that to sue journalists for libel, public officials-later extended to public figures-must prove "actual malice," meaning that statements were made with the knowledge that they were false, or with reckless disregard for the truth. Said Rochester, N.Y., Libel Attorney John McCrory: "We were all terribly worried that the court was ready to repudiate Sullivan by abandoning it as a standard, or eroding it." That...
...regard to your May 1st article entitled "Council Debates Rugby Grant, Heckling Policy." Although I have many concerns regarding the misrepresentation of the events of the meeting. I will confine my remarks to the quote attributed to me by Ms. Engelmayer. To the best of my recollection, the actual words are correct, but the context in which she places them completely distort my viewpoint. She writes that...
...Bounty, the climax supposedly occurs with the actual mutiny, yet when the mutiny does occur towards the end of the film, it seems to come with a sense of fizzling. Bligh is too pathetic to have deserved the disruption of his ship, and Christian too wimpy to lead such an adventure. The Bounty turns out to be a very frustrating movie; it drags out the plot so much that when a crucial action does occur, we are so numbed by the close-ups of the isolated characters or the grand views of the ocean that the drama loses all sense...
...crazy little girl with island fever" who wore gardenias in her hair. For the next 20 years they met mostly in international airports, and the mutual obsession flourished. She scanned the departure lounges on her endless political trips and was sometimes rewarded. For her lover, an actual sighting was not necessary: "She had always been there in his peripheral vision, a fitful shadow, the image that came forward when he was alone in a hotel room or at 35,000 feet." In the best romantic tradition, this pair of high flyers is reunited only in time for Jack...