Word: corruptible
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...columnist Patricia Smith for making up 48 different characters in her columns; now Barnicle, 54, gets caught with 10 stolen jokes for a column of 38 one-liners. It can be argued that Barnicle's crime is of a lesser degree--more an act of slothful corner cutting than corrupt journalism. Should he fall, many believe it will have less to do with the Carlin incident than an arrogance that has long irked colleagues--and the need for the paper to act as tough toward a white man as it did toward Smith, a black woman...
...have a child. Digging into the book, the reader meets a Vietnamese immigrant struggling with tradition, a young writer working in a bagel shop to pay rent, a college dropout discussing the problems of our education system and a woman with epilepsy. Statements on e-mail romances, corrupt politics and violence are all present, addressing the concerns of contemporary society. The novel's contributors comprise a fairly limited circle in that they share an obvious common trait: all are writers. What's more, almost all of them are intimately involved with New York City: some were born there, other moved...
...lots of experience with a genre you could call bizarre noir. Now he has created his first TV show, and it has--in milder form--the surreality and edge of his earlier work. Based on an Elmore Leonard novel, Maximum Bob stars Beau Bridges as a colorful, corrupt judge in a small Florida town. He's the kind of guy who will avoid paying his ex-wife alimony by putting her in jail. Amusing, smoothly put together and featuring a likable cast, this summer series augurs well for Sonnenfeld's next (and very curious) TV project, a revamped Fantasy Island...
Police investigators--inept, or maybe even corrupt and racist--have failed to put Stephen's killers behind bars. Over the past five years, they have ignored leads and left evidence unexplored, in effect assisting in the much-disputed acquittal of three of the suspects and failure to prosecute the other two. Stephen's parents have attended every court session, sitting erectly and silently as witnesses relived the incident again and again...
...another side to the story. Associates of Ewing defend him thus: "His open Christian faith, they insist, is left at the prosecutorial door." An interesting form of exoneration. Ewing is fit to carry out his judicial duties after all. Why? Because he allows none of his Christian faith to corrupt his working life...