Word: aftermath
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lucky to be alive with third-degree burns over much of his body. Even so, fire images would be in consummate bad taste if 1) Pryor thought there were such a thing as bad taste, and 2) he had not used a recitation of the event and its aftermath as the climax of Sunset Strip. In the days after Pryor was found in shock a few blocks from his Northridge, Calif., home, his attorney declared that he had accidentally ignited a glass of rum with a butane lighter. Few believed it. Stories from the rumor mill are darker and more...
Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott just completed a tour through Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Guatemala to learn how U.S. policy looks from Central America. "Arriving in Guatemala in the violent aftermath of last week's elections," he reports, "and meeting with defense officials, I found an embattled, suspense-charged atmosphere that reminded me of western films, in which the gunslingers are getting ready for high noon." On a different front, Washington Correspondent Johanna McGeary has also been covering the Salvadoran conflict, but long-distance at the State Department. She has been reporting what she calls "the war of the words...
...unnatural causes of Belushi's death. Noguchi referred to the use of the cocaine-heroin mixture by its street name-speedballing-and said that the dose would have killed Belushi even if he had been less paunchy and dissipated. The comedian's death had its public aftermath in the East as well. Actor Dan Aykroyd led the funeral cortege on Martha's Vineyard astride a Harley-Davidson motorcycle, and later eulogized his friend and co-star before 1,000 mourners at Manhattan's Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine...
...arguing for judicial passivism in the name of democracy is nothing new; scholars have done it for generations, raising their voices in particular in the aftermath of the liberal activist Court of Chief Justice Earl Warren--which provoked the wrath of conservatives by striking down legislation with regularity during the 1950s and 1960s. What makes Ely's approach unique is that he spotlights a small area in which he argues judges must exert their authority. As a result, he likes to call himself "a selective activist...
...calls Ely's professional views "grossly middle of the road and insensitive to class distinctions," such praise is noteworthy. But if Ely's colleagues are to be trusted, it suggests something more--that the vast recognition that has come John Hart Ely's way in the aftermath of Democracy and Distrust could scarcely he more deserved. Adds McGowan of Ely's legacy, "It's a book that every judge ought to read...