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Hamilton Jordan is a pizza proponent. He shuns the Sans Souci, a favorite Washington restaurant, thereby reaping contempt from a small but spirited group who consider the crabe en chemise (washed with a Sancerre '72) to be one of civilization's finer creations. Rosalynn Carter has taken the French off White House menus. She has a similar attitude toward fashion, refusing to consider it a high art form...
...convicted for the 1973 murders handed over to them, presumably for execution. They asked to have Wallace Muhammad, the Bilalian leader, and Heavyweight Champion Muhammad Ali, long an active Black Muslim supporter, brought to them. Khaalis also insisted that he be refunded $750 in legal fees caused by a contempt of court citation. During the trial of his family's killers, he had denounced them in court. He also wanted the recently released film Mohammad, Messenger of God, to be banned on the grounds that it is sacrilegious (see box). Khaalis' concern over the film was thought...
...that Britain has no equivalent of First Amendment guarantees of press freedom. Instead, British journalists face a daunting obstacle course of legal restrictions: 1) strict libel laws that allow even notorious public figures to win damages for disclosures that in the U.S. would not be considered actionable; 2) stringent contempt-of-court rules under which a journalist can be jailed for any original reporting about a matter that is sub judice, that is, before a court; 3) the principle of "confidence," which protects from disclosure industrial secrets and other private information that would be considered fair game...
...cerebral abstraction and the life of the studio became increasingly hardened as Degas moved past his fiftieth year and turned more bitter and misanthropic. His eyesight was failing, and his inability to work in less than full light led him to turn increasingly to sculpture. Profound disillusionment and contempt for much of life set in; along with his love of setting mental problems for himself through his art, this frustration suggests some personal reasons for the effect that most of these bronzes produce. The awkward, tortured poses both challenged Degas as master of design and visually expressed his opinion...
...decorated men who, at the behest of Uncle Sam, participated in the Viet Nam War. Since soldiers are so often accorded the benefit of the doubt, why is the same courtesy so infrequently extended to war resisters? Why do so many of us look upon them with contempt and suspicion, denouncing them for their adamant refusal to obey edicts that countermand what should be the most binding of all edicts: the Sixth Commandment...