Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After reading your story "The New Women in Court" [May 30], I realize that female lawyers are as bad as the males. Our legal system was established to determine innocence or guilt. All these women lawyers want is to beat their opponents...
...merit," he said. The powerful 1.6 million-member National Education Association and other teacher organizations have traditionally fought the notion of rewarding better teachers with more money, arguing that there is no objective way to measure a teacher's competence and that it would lead to favoritism and bad morale. But Reagan strategists think the President is on the popular side of the meritocracy issue. Says one aide: "It may turn out that parents are a more potent political force than teachers...
...whole thing, said one involved lawyer, was "a bizarre situation that reads like a bad script for a television soap opera." To be called, possibly, Scandal in the Courtroom, or maybe just The Judges. For the principal players in a black-robe drama currently unfolding in Cleveland are two federal judges. One has been accused of helping relatives and friends to get lucrative fees and jobs. The other has been accused of making some of the charges-baselessly-in order to get revenge on a lawyer-lover who jilted...
...sprung rhythm and sees that they are deftly executed by his engaging cast. Vaughn may lack the top-dog malevolence needed for an archvillain, but he communicates the fun he had playing the role. O'Toole, whose cheerleader beauty has too often been camouflaged on TV and in bad movies, blossoms here into that rare Hollywood star: someone who can make goodness seem sexy...
...Christopher Reeve. Superman is a role that offers as many pitfalls as opportunities: surrender to parody and the part becomes as two-dimensional as newsprint; emphasize the stalwart heroism and the audience falls asleep. Reeve brings both a light touch and sufficient muscle to Superman. And when he goes bad, he is a sketch of vice triumphant, swaggering toward the vixen Lorelei for a sulfurous kiss. It is largely to Reeve's credit that this summer's moviegoers will look up at the screen and say, "It's a hit... It's a delight...