Word: alibis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Maybe its script isn't worth $3 million, but its basic premise is not a bad one. It proposes an untrammeled San Francisco woman named Catherine Tramell (Sharon Stone) who writes murder mysteries that have a nasty way of predicting actual crimes. They also provide, of course, a perfect alibi. No one in her right mind would create fictions that make their author a prime suspect...
...most Americans, the plea is a cop-out -- a too easy alibi that could allow monsters like Dahmer to return to the streets. In fact, the insanity defense is seldom used and rarely successful. Experts estimate the defense is raised in fewer than 1% of the 13 million criminal cases filed annually in the U.S. On those rare occasions where it succeeds, the offense is usually nonviolent, and the prosecution and defense agree that the accused is deranged. One example: a homeless person with schizophrenia who is charged with disorderly conduct...
...broad center of American and international public opinion. He knew he had a problem with "the vision thing." Gorbachev's genius for making a public relations virtue out of political and economic necessity made Bush look bad by comparison. Bush's favorite word, prudence, often sounded like an alibi -- or a euphemism for timidity...
...went around the corner to a bar and waited till it came on the TV news at 11. I said, "Christ, they killed my best friend." I was pretending like I was crying, and guys are coming over to me. Everybody hated this guy. But this was my alibi. See, people in the bar said I'd been there all night. Fifty people would have sworn that I was there since 8 o'clock...
...trial centered on the accuracy of those memories -- more than four decades later -- as well as the validity of a German-issued identity card supplied by the Soviet Union. Though Teicholz persuasively unravels Demjanjuk's alibi (he claims he was a German prisoner of war at the time), the author handles the task a bit too eagerly, often telling the reader what to make of the evidence, which piles up "like the corpses in the pit." In fact, some observers express lingering doubts about whether Demjanjuk was really Ivan the Terrible...