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Although the jury found in Walsh's favor, JudgeMark Coven added his own remarks after the jurorswere dismissed. "There is no question in my mindthat Mr. Walsh was acting in what he considered tobe good faith for the people who came to him whenhe was acting as a city councillor...

Author: By Eric S. Bassin, | Title: 'Dildo Trial' Ends; Walsh Innocent | 4/11/1995 | See Source »

According to testimony before Middlesex District Judge Mark Coven and a six-member jury, Walsh, on October 5, allegedly tore two dildoes from a controversial art exhibit displayed in the Cambridge City Hall Annex. He also allegedly removed a sculpture which reads, "Show Me Yours...

Author: By Jeffrey N. Gell., | Title: Walsh Is Tried for Tearing Dildoes | 4/8/1995 | See Source »

...trouble. Her beloved adoptive uncle, an old police lieutenant, is murdered as the novel begins. She undertakes a lone-wolf investigation, having been forbidden to do so, and wanders like a gun-packing Alice into a mirror world of characters as clever and without conscience as she. A coven of rich, carnivorous old ladies is both scammed upon and scamming, but can its doddering members really have anything to do with a series of ferocious murders? How much should Mallory trust the male character who seems to have been modeled on Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock's smarter brother? O'Connell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Cops with Machisma | 10/3/1994 | See Source »

...like the death Rattle of a man whose species is facing extinction. And Mansfield is not alone. In the face of tectonic cultural shifts, some men are beginning to feel beside, puzzled and dispirited. They perceive their domain as shrinking the direct result of the evil machinations of a coven of feminists. I can think of nothing more terrifying than dealing with such men, whose expectations mirror those of their unenlightened forbears, men with truncated visions...

Author: By Lorraine Lezama, | Title: Love In The Time of Choler | 5/26/1993 | See Source »

...version of the national anthem, scratched her groin and spit at a ball game recently, she crossed the line between comedy and crudity. For an emerging group of female laugh getters, grossing out audiences is left to the likes of Andrew Dice Clay and Sam Kinison. Coven-like hairstyles are passe; so are Elizabeth Taylor fat jokes, delivered Uzi-style a la Joan Rivers, and the kind of masochistic self-deprecation that kept Phyllis Diller in face-lifts for two decades. The freshest funnywomen have power smiles, well-toned bodies and social commentary that ticks before it detonates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business Sauce, Satire and Shtick | 11/8/1990 | See Source »

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