Word: appealling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...purported to be listening to the American people. Some 20,000 favorable telegrams were sitting on his desk, the lawyer protested, and that represented the people's will. In the face of such popular acclaim, allusions to the Nuremberg trials in connection with North were offensive, Sullivan said. The appeal was successful, and Inouye dropped the analogy...
...standoff between fracture and extreme sensuousness. It is nominally abstract, a bit hard to read at first -- until you are used to the shaping and layering of canvas planes in the paintings and of separate sheets of paper in the drawings -- but almost profligate in its flat-out appeal to the eye. The chrome yellows and leaf greens, cobalts, pinks, purples and deep, reverberant blacks that proliferate in her work are the signs of a master colorist without inhibitions. Her drawing may be ponderous and whippy by turns, but never irresolute...
...most popular water bed is still the original water-filled vinyl bag set within a plastic or wooden frame. Fast gaining in appeal, however, is the soft-sided bed made of vinyl with foam baffles, cells or cylinders inside that reduce wave motion. Water temperature can be varied by a thermostat-controlled heater mat that plugs into a wall socket...
...members of the royal family are, in reality, ordinary human beings." Some commoners, however, have different ideas. "What keeps the royal family royal is the general suspension of disbelief that they are mere mortals," wrote Helen Mason in the Sunday Times. Without that disbelief, the monarchy might lose its appeal, and where would that leave the British press...
...seem persuasive not only to the jurors in the Tavoulareas case -- who voted him $2.05 million in damages -- but also to many other Americans. As a matter of law, however, they are wrong. The 1982 verdict against the Post was overturned, first by the trial judge and again on appeal. Libel law is often what scholars call counterintuitive: its tenets sometimes appear to contradict common sense and even common courtesy. The clash between legal principle and public perception may explain why libel verdicts so persistently get reversed and why legal scholars and a growing number of libel plaintiffs are concluding...