Word: blamed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suggesting it was O.K. to have assistants do some of the work--a tactic several populist artists now use. Collectors such as Bob and Cathy Adorni, a Castaic, Calif., couple who own 58 Kinkade prints, view such techniques as an acceptable means to an end. "You can't blame someone for earning a living with their talent," says Bob Adorni. Or can you? "People say I've sold out," says Kinkade. "But not reproducing my art would be like telling a writer not to publish a manuscript because it's one of a kind...
America is rocked by social violence, and some people think Hollywood is to blame. They point to the sex and smutty talk, drug use and gun love onscreen. The moguls hide behind a rickety rating system that stokes more fury than it slakes. Church groups attack it as a sham; critics on the left complain that it eviscerates mature films. "The censors have spent all their time protecting children against adult movies," says The Nation. "They might better protect adults against childish movies...
...Indeed, the thread that ran through judge-and-jury comments after Thursday?s guilty verdict (the first one, from 1996, was thrown out on a technicality) was that Schmitz?s oh-no moment on the show was neither a justification for murder nor a mitigation of blame. Schmitz's attorney, Jerome Sabbota, sought a lesser verdict of manslaughter, saying in Wednesday's closing arguments that Amedure continued to pursue Schmitz after the show to the point that Schmitz "lost all reason." But even he didn?t blame the show ? just Amedure. And neither judge nor jury would even go that...
...risk of ignoring unexplained fatigue, the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine is launching an educational campaign this week that will highlight three of the more common medical causes: thyroid disorders, depression and sleep apnea (a condition often characterized by snoring). "Baby boomers especially want to blame everything on their environment--their jobs, their kids, the stress of living in the '90s," says Dr. Sandra Adamson Fryhofer, who has just been elected president of the organization. But, she adds, you have to be alert to other possibilities as well, particularly after...
...maybe these kids are simply seeing their older siblings have problems with drugs. In any case, says Branegan, "you don't want to take too much credit for something like this, because if it gets worse later you don?t want to be the person to take all the blame...