Word: contempts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hearing, the defendant may take the stand and testify on the questions she chooses to respond to. In the Cambridge courts, if she chooses to testify, she must answer every question to the best of her knowledge or be held in contempt of court...
...Contempt...
Berlow and Kilbreth-who conducted their own defense before a courtroom of about 80 supporters-attempted to initiate contempt of court proceedings against President-designate Bok and Oscar Handlin, Warren Professor of American History, for ignoring the defense subpoenas...
...What a Sneaky Pete type of diplomacy the Chinese have resorted to in the Ping Pong incident [April 26]. What an insulting way to go about re-establishing relations with this country. This should really tell us something of the contempt in which we are held by our enemizs. The amount of space and profundity devoted to this insult shows how willing we are to absorb...
Instead, at Warhol's own insistence, the towering walls of the main gallery are hung, floor to ceiling, with Warhol's fuchsia cow wallpaper, in whose garish and assertive surface the paintings all but drown. A gesture of contempt for his past work? Not quite. This is Warhol's aesthetic of noninvolvement and repetition shoved to another extreme, to the suggestion that a hierarchy of images with a particular "masterpiece" perched on top makes no sense to him. The gross mooing of those cows in the Whitney china shop may also remind viewers of how insulated...