Word: barring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...efforts to save his life. They had planned to argue that Kaczynski suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, which made him incapable of the intent necessary for him to be held legally responsible for the crimes. But now U.S. District Court Judge Garland Burrell Jr. is weighing a prosecution request to bar all expert psychiatric testimony, leaving his defense in tatters...
...swamp in the sky. He has one brother who is a cop and another who is a priest. ("I don't know where they went wrong," he says.) A self-professed martial-arts expert (who pronounces karate kah-dah-tay), he once escaped from prison by carving a bar of soap into "the most perfect-looking pistol you've ever seen," and he is described by the FBI as a master of disguises. He once proclaimed, in his faintly Continental intonation, "The thing about art theft is the Robin Hood element in it." Not your common thug...
...dressed all in black--a group the New York Press, a downtown weekly, has called the "Comme des Knuckleheads crowd," after a downtown store called Comme des Garcons, which specializes in black clothing for wannabe hipsters. The Comme des Knuckleheads usually remain clustered in a mob at the bar, since they are hoping to be joined by models late in the evening, and models don't actually...
Other photographs deal with the human political sphere. "Color Bar" broaches the issue of race, as group of black beetles and a group of green beetle face off atop a pile of old bones. Although technical dead, each group seems alive in its moment of confrontation. The sky in the background is dark and menacing. As in Norfleet's other work, the contrasts run deep, as anthropology is simultaneously charted and created...
Comedic elements are also introduced in the third act in a vain attempt to re-charge the faltering narrative. A scene set in a sushi bar is oddly reminiscent of a Woody Allen film. However Figgis only hints at the ironic comedy and existential angst found in the best of Allen's work...