Word: armchair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...criterion for admission. And how does one measure moral fiber anyway? Should academic institutions allow their interviewers to probe 17 year-old psyches and, in one hour or less, form opinions on their characters? Are any of these interviewers qualified to do this, or are they acting like armchair psychologists at the students' expense? And why are colleges doing this anyway? Presumably they are choosing candidates foe academia and not the priesthood...
...Simpson murder trial provided armchair lawyers with a week of high courtroom drama as Detective Mark Fuhrman coolly parried defense attorney F. Lee Bailey's taunting cross-examination. Fuhrman repeatedly denied having made racist statements; he also denied suggestions that he planted a bloody glove on Simpson's estate to frame the football hero. The high stakes prompted Bailey and prosecutor Marcia Clark to trade playground-ready insults, leading Judge Lance Ito to ask for an apology from each attorney and to order them not to "engage in gratuitous personal attacks upon each other." At week's end yet another...
...with Wagner's ride of the Valkyries, wielding spears and boas with imperious belligerence as they battle for the spotlight. The performance is presided over by a folksy/bitchy hostess, ``Miss Sylvia Bills,'' a Kewpie-doll look-alike of ``America's Most Beloved Retired Diva.'' She seats herself in an armchair, vodka bottle at the ready, and introduces the samplings from operatic war-horses. (Typical plot synopsis: ``Manon falls in love in 16 bars. Sounds like me after the show...
...with Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries, wielding spears and boas with imperious belligerence as they battle for the spotlight. The performance is presided over by a folksy/bitchy hostess, "Miss Sylvia Bills," a Kewpie-doll look-alike of "America's Most Beloved Retired Diva." She seats herself in an armchair, vodka bottle at the ready, and introduces the samplings from operatic war-horses. (Typical plot synopsis: "Manon falls in love in 16 bars. Sounds like me after the show...
...Sports journalists and armchair [purists] are the Amazon Indians who know more than we do--but in another way they know much, much less...