Word: crookedness
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Gregers Werle (Clayton Corzatte) is a man with a raging case of "integrity fever" who prates high-mindedly of "the claim of the ideal." His pinched nostrils seem to sniff moral pollution in the air. He abominates his widowed father, a pompous timber merchant, accusing him of real and fancied...
There was man, of course. Chimpanzees used rocks to break open hard-shelled food, sticks to feed on termites and ants, and leaves for wiping their bodies and drinking. A gorilla had been seen pulling fruit to within its grasp by means of a crooked branch. The sea otter used...
With those words Sandy Koufax, the highest-paid player (at $125,000) and one of the best pitchers in baseball his tory, retired last week - at 30. In the last five years with the Los Angeles Dodgers, mostly on the strength of a smashing fastball and a jug-handle curve...
Kaplan has played it completely crooked, milking laughs from every possible source--Charles Schulz, Ballantine beer signs, karate and sumo, and cute animals (it really is a charming cat)--except the text. The lines are raced through in a variety of singsongs. This, combined with the broad accents of the...
What U.S. editors widely fear is not so much news deferment as the probability that pretrial silence would foster the kind of "secret law enforcement" that shields lax or crooked police from public scrutiny-and actually hurts many defendants. "If these strictures are adopted," says Atlanta Constitution Editor Eugene Patterson...