Word: crookedness
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But Pynchon's new novel is in some ways even more difficult than its famously challenging predecessor. This time out, the author renounces contemporary English speech altogether and casts the entire narrative in the 18th century diction allegedly spoken by a clergyman named Wicks Cherrycoke; he is the one who...
"S. 767 will make it easier for people who have been ripped off by crooked landlords and fly-by-night repairmen to collect the compensation they deserve," said Elizabeth R. Pope '98, director of law reform of SCAS.
WASHINGTON, D.C.: While President Clinton is taking up the right cause in announcing new legislative proposals to prevent crooked doctors from abusing the Medicare and Medicaid programs, he could have accomplished much of what he aims to do if he had carried out laws passed in 1996 and 1987 for...
Last October, TIME used Lori Lucas, a single mother in Shrewsbury, Missouri, to personify the suburban swing voter courted by all parties in this year's presidential election. Lucas, like many fellow moms, was undecided when she appeared on our cover. Afterward, she began researching the candidates at the local...
He arrived accompanied by Carla Schrom, a Dayton's investigator posing as a crooked store employee, and presented Jim and Stacy, who were visiting, with a Coach briefcase, a Baccarat crystal eagle and three suits. They allegedly bought the crystal and leather but declined the suits, demanding Armanis instead. This...