Word: defendents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fascinating to watch someone who has made boxing his life extol the merits of the sport, but there is also something undeniably sad about seeing the man who coached Rocky Marciano having to defend the sport, and even to sell...
...show and has taken an ad in Advertising Age threatening its sponsors. Says William Donohue, the league's president: "It feeds the same appetite that says that the good Catholics are the ones smart enough not to go along with what's going on in Rome." But other Catholics defend the show. In his glowing review in the Catholic magazine America, Jesuit TV columnist James Martin writes, "If you think that any of these story lines are beyond the pale, just recall one of your parish council's agendas...
...civilizing effect on a profession with a reputation for cutting legal corners. "The days of kicking doors and slapping whores are over," says Don Floyd, owner of Northeast Bail Bonds in Atlanta, who tries to be selective about the bounty hunters he employs. Otherwise, he says, "I couldn't defend all the lawsuits I'd have...
...mean to defend the minivan, for it is much maligned. It is not universally maligned, of course. I know of many women in particular who find the minivan the perfect vehicle for its intended purpose, which is the safe and efficient conveyance of half a dozen belligerent, sputtering children from home to soccer game to swim lesson to juvenile-detention center, where most of them belong. The people who malign the minivan--if the gender police will grant me this small observation--are almost exclusively men. And they are at last having their way. Sales of minivans are flat this...
...meant to defend the minivan, but I see I've only maligned the sport-ute. It's hard to avoid. A car, says the cliche, is indelibly an extension of self. With minivans the extension is straightforward and uncomplicated--a means of transportation for housewives and family men (family persons?). For the upper-middle-class American man circa 1997, the cliche is undone. The sport-utility vehicle is not an expression but a denial--a carapace, a hard shell concealing the soft center within...