Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...burn on the lawn and crucial witnesses will falter on the stand. Worse, Brigance's home will be destroyed by arson, his marriage will be nearly wrecked, and his tempting, perky paralegal (Sandra Bullock) will be abducted and abused by the Klan. But he will persevere. And his closing argument--screenwriter Akiva Goldsman's most visible addition to the book--will tear your heart...
...from that evocation of an earlier era that A Time to Kill's lovability arises. The film's makers have transferred us back to a more innocent and predictable movie world, a place where good hearts are self-consciously liberal hearts, brimming--O.K., bleeding--with the belief that honorable argument will defeat vile and skulking prejudice. It is, one has to admit, a world of pure fantasy. But it is pretty, and not entirely useless, to think otherwise...
...divide. Americans don't have a common culture, they say; the American people comprise too many different cultures and possess too little national sentiment to sustain a single perspective (or even a single song). Certainly, something of what I've seen among my fellow Americans in Spain supports this argument. We come from very different communities; we represent different regions and ethnicities and viewpoints. My own perspective as an Asian-American male from New Jersey, for instance, is distinct from that of a fellow student in my program, who is white, bisexual and from Texas...
...busily opining about Wills' relations with each of his parents. At the moment, many royals watchers argue that as Wills matures, he will look more to the Windsors, the joys of rural life, to shooting parties and to the blessed absence of the prying press. According to the same argument, city-bound Diana will have less influence on, or even contact with, her sons...
...Andrew Sullivan, author of Virtually Normal: An Argument About Homosexuality, offers this riposte to what he calls the polygamy diversion (New Republic, June 7): homosexuality is a "state," while polygamy is merely "an activity." Homosexuality is "morally and psychologically" superior to polygamy. Thus it deserves the state sanction of marriage, whereas polygamy does...