Word: corrupting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dennis Fung show that they collected the socks there slightly later. The defense suggests that the socks were put on the floor after the video was taken. Neither Clark nor deputy district attorney Chris Darden explained that discrepancy in their final arguments. They did raise the point that even corrupt cops would have no reason to plant socks without blood on them--the defense charges the blood was applied later...
...There's a whole part of the equation that [Phelps] left out and that's money and the spectacle of big-time sports," said Dan D. Schwartz, 31, a student at the Graduate School of Education. "We're up against a huge, one might say corrupt, system...
Popular elections in the late 19th century--a period well known for its political machines and corruption--faced an unusual problem. A large number of eligible voters were illiterate; they simply could not read the ballots. Corrupt party members often attempted to exploit this illiteracy by disguising their ballot to look like the other party's ballot. For example, Democrats would print ballots with pictures of Abraham Lincoln, so those unsuspecting and illiterate might suppose that they were voting Republican...
America has become a society that makes too much of its living by marketing its own Impure Thoughts: a corrupt dynamic. Secular realists reply to the idea of abstinence with some snorting variant on what Hemingway's Jake Barnes told Brett Ashley at the end of The Sun Also Rises: "Isn't it pretty to think so?" (Jake's problem was not sexual indulgence, of course, but the reverse--grim chastity enforced by a war wound.) Get real...
...proves he is as good at disinformation as he is at disentertainment. Nomi gets one job after having sex with the hotel's entertainment director (Kyle MacLachlan) and a better one after pushing the headliner down a flight of stairs. She has no soul to sell, no morals to corrupt. Kinda like the film. For 2 hrs. 11 min., Showgirls offers a slumming party inside the moviemakers' libidos. Ladies and gents, no matter how curious or horny you think you are, you don't want to be there...