Word: circuitous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Judicial reforms have been adopted to protect young victims from being brutalized a second time in court. Specially trained professionals question children more carefully now. More than half the states protect children from having to testify in open court, allowing either videotaped or closed-circuit testimony. That protection will be tested by the Supreme Court. Last week the Justices agreed to consider two cases in which defendants argue that they were denied their Sixth Amendment right to confront their accusers. So far, the reforms are working. Although only an estimated 10% to 15% of sex-abuse complaints are prosecuted, about...
...focus with a closer look, for that same Lady Antonia is an internationally established historian, the author of best-selling biographies and a social activist. She is mother of six, protective wife of renowned playwright Harold Pinter, and also dashes off detective stories, wafts along the British TV celeb circuit, and displays an admirable tennis serve...
...while she was ubiquitous on the TV-radio "chat show" circuit, bright and quippy for Call My Bluff, articulate and opinionated on the weighty Question Time. Last month Americans tuned to a highbrow quiz program on National Public Radio could hear Lady Antonia deftly identify an arcane quotation: "It's Milton -- Lycidas...
...beat up Walters. Sugar Ray Leonard will come out of retirement to beat up Duran. Marvin Hagler will come out of retirement to beat up Leonard. Thomas Hearns will come out of retirement to beat up Hagler. In desperation, boxing commissioner Pete Rozelle will establish a senior boxing circuit. Tyson will come out of retirement to beat up Rozelle...
...this movie, you have to wonder: Is he entirely honest? One hates to raise this question, since anyone who is willing to run bingo games to help finance his movie has the makings of a folk hero. Especially when his completed picture becomes the talk of the film-festival circuit and achieves what few documentaries ever do: distribution by a major studio, which is said to have paid $2 million for the privilege...