Word: benches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...greater than watching somebody get yelled at. You loved it when your mom stuck it to your brother, and you love it now, rubbernecking to see a cop pull a car over. One of the best spots for catching good, stern lectures in our authority-free culture is the bench of lower-court judges. These guys can lay into punks and deadbeats like Father Knows Best on a caffeine...
...there are also teens like Aisha Grayton, 17, who sits on a bench at the St. Nicolas housing projects, six months pregnant after two miscarriages and an abortion. "I got talked to, but I do what I want to do," she says, calling out the number of girls she knows who are pregnant. But if the present numbers hold, girls like Grayton may someday be on that bench by themselves...
...Tori Amos. The fairy-eyed, flame-haired imp who straddles the piano bench while playing songs with lyrics like, "Look, I'm standing naked before you, / Don't you want more than my sex?" ,and ends every concert with a heart-wrenching rendition of "Over the Rainbow." Ever since her groundbreaking and soul-churning first album, Little Earthquakes, she has captured the attention of nearly everyone, from emotionally tormented souls and the most critical of music critics. Her quirky, often abrasive songs unabashedly confront sex, heartache and religion without whining or spewing out popmusic poetry, a la Jewel...
...pair of rulings came from a comparatively unified court -- 7 to 2 -- and shows that even conservatives on the bench are staying strong on sexual harassment, says Cohen. For the record, the dissenters were Justices Antonin Scalia and -- who else? -- Clarence Thomas...
...remember turning and looking at my teammates down the bench [when Miller hit that shot], and everyone was in shock," Basil said. "I froze for a second and thought, `We're actually going to do this...