Word: briney
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Legras might have fared even worse in the U.S. Almost all U.S. law schools teach the common law doctrine that "spring guns," booby-trapped weapons that fire at an intruder, are excessively violent when used to protect empty premises. In a 1971 Iowa case, Katko vs. Briney, the State Supreme Court upheld an award of $30,000 in damages to a man who was injured by a spring gun when he broke into the upstairs bedroom of an abandoned farmhouse. In a 1974 case, San Anselmo, Calif, Homeowner Don Luis Ceballos was convicted of assault with a deadly weapon when...
...Pinocchio, Gepetto, and a very long nose. (It actually grows on stage, we're told.) It's sponsored by the Kirkland Nursery-Kindergarten, where some of the most intelligent, likeable, and well-directed kids we know go to school. Saturday, January 18, 10 a.m. --Rick and Dottie Briney...
...best piece of museum news I've had in weeks is that Atlantic Salmon from Canada's Sanguenay river are now on exhibit at the New England Aquarium. I wish them luck trying to swim upstream. K.E. Briney...
...squares who was a leader of the Bauhaus movement in Germany in the '30s and who directed the Yale design school in the '50s. One item from the exhibit is pictured on page one, and other exhibits range from watercolors to quilts to copporplate. Well worth seeing. Anita Briney...
...Ames, Mister"..."Fat man, you shoot a great game of pool."...); a classic Godard. Everybody knows these films, you can hardly go wrong no matter what you see this week, and the real attraction of the week is Cagney on T.V., so I'll leave space for Farmer Briney. A few oddities worth checking: Bogart (with a taste for cheesecake, the source of which Peter Lorre viciously murders) and Mafia friends save N.Y.C. from the Nazis when the police aren't watching in All Through the Night; the Russian film of Dostoevsky at Quincy; John Wayne in John Ford...