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Anyone who has watched the village T.V. with a coat hanger for an antenna. Anyone who has kicked a ball full of rags through the slums of Rio or fallen to neatly manicured German turf in celebration. It is the game and passion of the world. We should count ourselves thankful that it was held here this summer. And we must hope it comes back...
...mitigate the sentence an Indiana man received for rape and murder. His client suffered from sexual sadism because of pornography, rendering him unable to gauge the wrongfulness of his conduct. Another lawyer in Milwaukee coined "cultural psychosis" to explain why an inner-city teenager killed another for her leather coat. The defense attorney sought to convince jurors that the girl's traumatic childhood in a violent inner-city neighborhood created a mental disorder similar to the posttraumatic stress syndrome that afflicts some Vietnam veterans...
...what she was. I wish we could stand on the sidewalk as the caisson passes, and take off our hat, and explain to our sons and daughters and say, "That is a patriot passing by." I wish I could see someone'slittle boy, in a knee-length coat, lift his arm and salute...
According to the February article, Gates in Paris was "furious" because a French couple mistook him for a taxi driver even though he "was standing in the lobby of [his] chic Latin Quarter hotel, in [his] handmade suit, Burberry coat and Paul Stewart scarf...." Gates was furious apparently because "[t]hose guys just weren't seeing...
...human beings reduced to the status of animals in the mine. This correlation is articulated most pronouncedly in the case of a white stallion who is lowered into Le Voreux towards the commencement of both movie and book. The film reveals how the pure white of his coat is quickly soiled by the coal of the mine, and effectively relates this corruption to the human realm in the person of Catherine...