Word: broken
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These inconsistencies are undeniable. The ballistics report shows that Jackie was shot from 24 ft. to 28 ft. away, not the 12 ft. or so Kay claimed. Nor did the door appear to have been broken down. After the guilty verdict, Kay wrote a letter to the judge explaining that she had actually used her brother-in-law's sawed-off shotgun but lied because she did not want to incriminate him for possessing an illegal firearm. A witness came forward to say that Kay told her she had laid in wait to kill Jackie two days earlier but changed...
...writer-director Cameron Crowe's intricate, insinuating comedy is to get his protagonist into the end zone of emotional maturity with no more than minor injuries. For a guy like Jerry, this is pretty much a Hail Mary play. For an actor like Cruise, it is a great broken-field...
...vague notions of treating mental illness by questioning and listening. But he is ineffectual, and Marks is suspicious and fearful. She tries to fit fragments of her childhood together but fails, because (in the anguished words that Atwood gives her) her memory is "like a plate that's been broken. There are always some pieces that would seem to belong to another plate altogether, and then there are the empty spaces, where you cannot fit anything...
...quite another because it places the onus on the individual to be moral because it is the right thing to do, not because he or she might get caught. Under an honor code, a dishonest act, such as cheating on an exam, not only means that a student has broken his or her word, but it violates the trust an entire community has vested into itself...
...voting-age Americans cast ballots. In receiving almost 50% of the votes cast, Bill Clinton managed to capture only 24% of the voting-age pool, hardly a serious mandate. If ever a statistic reflected Americans' disenchantment with their government, this is it. Sadly, most Americans view the system as broken. Worse, they see little or nothing they can do to fix it by voting, so they stay home in droves. It is small wonder that voters put a Democrat in the White House and Republicans in control of Congress. We call it damage control...