Word: bender
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...zealotry riles 50% of their lot. City Councilman Martin Devere, a businessman whose charges include Boothill cemetery, and a McNeely supporter, says that "anyone good in that job is bound to ruffle feathers." A local innkeeper says flatly, "I think he's an egomaniac. We had a little fender bender out front here, and you'd of thought it was Murder One. I mean, I know in a little town like this--we only have 1,700 people--he doesn't have much to do, but you should have seen...
...their confessions fit Twain's characters. His Huck was a fierce individualist and a true obsessive, altogether capable of having turned into a bookish Bible thumper. Tom was a rule bender and a blamer of others, entirely likely to feel self-pity rather than remorse for the sexual crimes Sabath attributes to him. This plausibility is enhanced by masterly acting. Cullum ingratiatingly wheedles, brays and whines as Sawyer. As Huck, Scott combines the stern propriety of the convert to civilization with the lone wolf's fearsome force of nature. W.A.H...
...Chryssa has used neon in major pieces since the 1960s. Last year Artist Stephen Antonakos created two monumental 96-ft. by 12-ft. abstract neon walls of apple green, red-orange, pink and blues inside the Tacoma Dome, a sports arena. Artist Joe Augusta, who is also a tube bender, shapes masklike faces like Elvis Machine in startling colors, and Los Angeles Artist Eric Zimmerman made a playful neon birthday cake for the city's 1981 bicentennial. "Neon is the strongest, most direct form of illustration," argued Artist Larry Rivers in Rudi Stern's 1979 book Let There Be Neon...
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...reasonably rely" on a search warrant given them by a magistrate, it does not matter if the warrant is in some way defective (misdated, say, or not specific enough). Court experts say that the addition of two or three conservatives would accelerate the assault on the exclusionary rule. Says Bender: "Very quickly there would be a general good-faith exception leading to, for all practical purposes, no exclusionary rule...