Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decision gives police officers more leeway in determing whether the evidence constitutes just cause for search and seizure and frees him or her from responsibility for bad decisions. The Supreme Court, moreover, has given great latitude to magistrates; judges will no longer be held responsible for their decision to grant a warrant and they will have the authority to interpret "good faith." Those justices who support the narrowing of the exclusionary rule did not understand its two-pronged purpose: it puts a check on both police and judge, making them both responsible for proving there is just cause for search...
...block in Rockefeller Center. Travelers waited four and five hours just to get into bureaucracy's front door. A Washington Post editorial writer reported a few days ago that the passengers on her 747, diverted to Hartford, Conn., on the return flight from Rome as a result of bad weather in New York City, were forced to sit on a runway for seven hours because no customs inspectors were on hand to process them...
...same time. The minister has known Michael Jackson, 25, and his brothers for years. And after taking in the show, he dropped by the hotel suite of Promoter Don King, 52, for some barbecue and a little talk about such shared experiences as getting a dose of bad press and their responsibility as symbols for black Americans. "It was said for a while that the only way you could appeal to the masses was to be decadent, but that's not true," observed the candidate. "No dope-oriented album ever sold as much as Thriller, and no vulgar artist...
...Terms of Endearment Jack Nicholson seemed to have Wayfarers grafted onto his face. They became a mass pop phenomenon when Tom Cruise hid himself behind a pair in Risky Business in 1983. As a result, says Paul Brickman, the movie's writerdirector, kids are buying attitude, a "street-bad kind of look." In 1981 Bausch & Lomb produced 18,000 Wayfarers. This year the company expects to sell 600,000. Notes Gai Gherardi, co-owner of Los Angeles' posh 1.a. Eyeworks: "When a kid comes in here, he's buying that '50s mystique, that uniform...
...favors in the hope that she will introduce him to her other lover, a lovely, coarse lad who seems to offer the possibility of degradation along with the joy of sex. The question is, will one or the other of them meet with murder (or just incredibly bad luck) after conjoining with her? The answer is, who cares?, especially as she is played with a placid lack of threat by Renée Sontendijk...