Word: coded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...committing suicide. So Danzer stopped taking his insulin. After five days of convulsions, he finally died. Says his partner, Jeff Halsey: "He might have been spared some of his greatest pain and retained some of his dignity if he and his physician had received help from a compassionate code of laws...
...neighbor who, unbeknownst to the community, was twice convicted for sex offenses. These new laws, some of which are being challenged in states including New Jersey, bring to the fore a number of troubling questions about the role of individual rights in our country's legal and moral code...
With gestures like that, she became a walking riposte to the palace, with its narrow, dated code of royal behavior. As has been pointed out many times, she was, if anything, a throwback to the Queen Mother, with her common touch and effortless rapport with ordinary people. When senior courtiers tried to limit Diana or downgrade her, they just looked pompous...
...asserts British film historian Richard Dyer, "partly because he has a picture of Alan Ladd in his locker." Well, maybe Mineo was just...sensitive. But even if these interpretations are wrong, they are telling: they indicate how desperate some gays have been to find their reflection onscreen--even in code or in could-be, should-be wish fulfillment...
...They wouldn't even agree to changing a comma" of the rent control code, she says. "If only they had done that, we would never have had Question Nine...