Word: circuitous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Near the end of his tenure, Turow successfullyconvicted Cook County Circuit Judge Reginald J.Holzer, who had served for 20 years before he wasfound guilty of extorting $200,000 in unpaid loansfrom lawyers and others who appeared before him incourt...
...Turkey Awards, Wood was voted "The Worst Director of All Time," and Plan 9 "The Worst Film of All Time." Critic J. Hoberman, in the book Midnight Movies, proclaimed Wood "the ultimate cult director, the terminal manifestation of 'expressive esoterica.' " Glen or Glenda showed up on the late-night circuit, and soon much of the auteur's awful oeuvre was available on videocassette. Now Wood, anonymous in life, is notorious in death. He wrote but did not direct Orgy of the Dead; yet the video box ballyhoos it as "Ed Wood Jr.'s Masterpiece of Erotic Horror -- from the Creator...
...time," she says, "and that's what's so frustrating." As of late last week, a federal district judge had not yet ruled on Coleman's petition. If Coleman loses his appeal, he can take it to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, then to the Supreme Court. These days that final trip hardly seems worth the effort...
After taking the fall semester off to play the junior circuit, parker had a dismal return to Harvard tennis...
More than half the tickets for the speech, which will be broadcast on closed circuit television around the University, were distributed in a lottery open to all Harvard students. "We had to turn away hundreds," said Kennedy School spokesperson Steve Singer. "Several times more than we had seats...