Word: burdick
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...strangeness of those processes that seems distinctively his own. In The Mysteries of Harris Burdick (1984), a volume of page-size charcoal drawings accompanied by short captions, a suburban house blasts off into the night sky. Beneath it are the words "The house on Maple Street. It was a perfect lift-off." Van Allsburg has a gift for adopting unusual vantage points. After spotting two ants in his kitchen one day, he dreamed up Two Bad Ants (1988), in which the adventures of a pair of the insects -- being buffeted inside a garbage disposal and nearly getting cooked...
NORTH DAKOTA Old (80) and recovering from surgery, Quentin Burdick is still powerful...
...cleverly crafted provision requiring the Government to buy $10 million worth of sunflower oil, courtesy of Democratic Senator Quentin Burdick of North Dakota. Budget cutters had defeated an earlier measure, but a new version of the sunflower subsidy program lay hidden in the bill's fertile soil...
...days to reach their verdict, the jurors earned high marks for their methodical approach. Before dismissing the jurors, Sofaer told them he had been "impressed, indeed awed" by their diligence. In interviews with newspapers and TV stations later, several of the jurors explained how the deliberations had gone. Lydia Burdick, 35, said they decided the passage had a defamatory meaning because it "went far beyond" the Kahan report. Patricia De Loatch, 27, a marketing specialist for AT&T, said she concluded that the TIME paragraph was false because the magazine had not offered evidence to back up its claim...
...that she and one other juror initially felt that TIME should be found to have acted with malice, but Foreman Zug argued that Halevy must have believed the appendix contained the disputed information. "We did not think he would have said it if he were not 100% certain," said Burdick. "He knew it could be checked the next morning by everyone in Israel who had access to that report." Ultimately, according to De Loatch, the jury believed that Halevy "wasn't actually out to get Sharon. He didn't make up the story, and he actually believed what his sources...