Word: appealling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Beverly Hills doctor, who is free pending appeal, would be permitted some amenities in his house arrest: a television, reading material and a private security guard. He would be able to leave his shabby room only to use one of the hallway bathrooms, which are shared by as many as a dozen tenants. Deputy City Attorney Stephanie Sautner, who prosecuted the case, told the Los Angeles Times, "If landlords fear that they would have to live in the same squalor they impose on some of their tenants, they just might think twice before allowing their apartments to deteriorate to such...
Obviously the sight of this marvelous physical specimen cavorting through the jungles in a series of brutally effective, strikingly photographed action scenes is a big part of the movie's appeal, regardless of ideology. Rambo has echoes of half a dozen movie heroes of old, from Tarzan to Shane, and his Vietnamese and Soviet foes are updated versions of the malevolent Japanese and Germans from World War II films. The cheers that erupt in the theater as the body count soars are coming largely from young moviegoers whose only previous encounter with Viet Nam may have been a question...
...autobiographical Rude Assignment, were illustrated with Lewis' adrenal scrawls and became another profitable venture. Deliberately bold typefaces that varied wildly in size to emphasize certain words, according to the author's wishes, as well as surreal pronouncements ("A picture of a man either is or is not") exerted an appeal on college audiences: more than 50,000 copies of Lewisiana have been sold, and other volumes are on the way. "Lewis wrote 45 books," proclaims Martin. "And Black Sparrow has reprint rights to all of them. It's like having an exclusive option on the Inca Empire." If North Point...
...Danish-born aristocrat's 1982 conviction on charges that he twice tried to kill his socialite wife Martha ("Sunny") von Bulow with insulin injections; since 1980 she has lain in a coma from which she is expected not to recover. Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz had argued the successful appeal. Now the ball was Puccio...
...stand, the decision would deal a fatal blow to the prosecution. To many it was seen as leading to Ver's acquittal. Ver's lawyer, Antonio Coronel, said that he intends to move for dismissal of the charges, declaring that "you don't defend yourself against nothing." A possible appeal by the prosecution is under study...