Word: donning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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^ A. I am a native daughter of Los Angeles. I remember when it was like a tropical fishing village. There is so little tradition here that it lends itself to experimentation. No one's been watching for so long that you don't have to worry about taboos. Los Angeles...
I try to do that, to dare to be an individual, an eccentric. In America we don't have a tradition of eccentricity. In this society we're just supposed to go until we drop. We don't even have nervous breakdowns anymore. We have episodes, and then we're...
You don't want to get the government mad at you -- even a local government. I once wrote an article critical of New York City's tax department. Two months later, I was summoned to a three-year audit. At the time the city was auditing only about one New...
Why had the defense's expert witnesses not been allowed to testify? "You don't seem to understand," one of the Government's team told me. "We didn't decide the witnesses couldn't testify; the judge did. There was a judge in this trial! There was a jury!"
The jurors I interviewed seemed less than rock solid in their conviction too. "I don't feel what they did was jailworthy," one juror told me. Said another: "I felt bad about this whole thing, to tell you the truth. I don't feel like we did the right thing...