Word: byronic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...resolve the fiscal crisis at the state level, Prop 2 1/2 will be adjusted," says state Rep. Byron Rushing (D-Boston...
...credibility. But last week the Justices refused to permit such evidence to impeach the credibility of a witness testifying in support of a Chicago murder defendant. The ruling left some experts scratching their heads and anticipating future criminal cases because the fifth and deciding vote came from Justice Byron White, normally one of the staunchest judicial critics of the exclusionary rule...
...style in America, though it migrated to the movies in the 20th century. In the 19th, however, it was still firmly ensconced in painting, and at its zenith -- the 1850s and 1860s -- its star was Frederic Edwin Church, whose admirers compared him (for various reasons) with Lord Byron, Balboa and J.M.W. Turner. When Church showed a single landscape, Americans would turn out to see it in the kind of droves that require the pull of a whole retrospective today. In 1859 he made $3,000 in three weeks -- at 25 cents a ticket -- by displaying Heart of the Andes...