Word: contempts
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...renovated PTL cannot afford to take any chances with their images. As the Bakkers' escapades showed, the sins of one preacher will be laid upon another. Swaggart's downfall will add to the broad-brush contempt that many are heaping on the evangelical and Pentecostalist religions, even though the video brigade is but a small part of these movements. It was ironical that a Broadway-bound play, based on Elmer Gantry, opened in Washington...
...live, contentedly, in a society which, infact if not in theory, simply does not countenancewhether contempt citations or prior restraints,"he said...
Abrams said the Court should adapt its theory to its practice by asserting that the First Amendment protects the press's right to complete immunity from contempt citations in its coverage of trials...
Abrams argued that in practice, judges rarelyfind the press in contempt of court "for theirpublishing of potentially prejudicial materialsabout forthcoming trials...
...already perceived about the fellow in the White House. But in the Democratic race, where voters still have trouble telling most of the candidates apart, it is sometimes more effective to define a candidate by tearing a rival down. With Dole and Bush, their very familiarity may breed not contempt but indifference. What better way to distinguish oneself than to take the other fellow down a peg or two? In the end, any real debate can get lost in the static...