Word: ernest
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When Congress enacted the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act in 1970, federal prosecutors used it to attack organized crime. But Seal Beach, Calif., attorney Ernest J. Franceschi Jr. is suing the city of Huntington Beach, Calif., under the RICO statute for operating what he claims is an illegal speed trap. Franceschi charges that the city can't produce proof of a traffic-engineering survey justifying the use of radar on a busy stretch of road. He also says police have handed out about 100 tickets a day amounting to $20 million in fines over 10 years, and his class...
Last is best. Ernest Hemingway's Hills Like White Elephants (directed by Tony Richardson) is a vignette from 1925 Spain. At a dusty rural railway station, a writer with wanderlust (James Woods) and his pregnant girlfriend (Melanie Griffith) warily discuss what is never explicitly mentioned: an abortion. Writers John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion produced dialogue that is Earnestly true, not faux Papa. Woods, edgy as usual, and Griffith, her little- girl voice on the edge of tears, generate real sexual tension...
...film is stunningly photographed by Ernest Dickerson, and the costume and set design (Wynn Thomas) play strong supporting roles. Mo' Better Blues is, without a doubt, beautiful to look at. The film's music score, written by Bill Lee, the filmmaker's father and a jazz musician himself, is strong, with both the title track and "Harlem Blues," sung by newcomer Williams, deserving special credit...
Turow is the 92nd writer to appear on the cover of TIME. The first was novelist Joseph Conrad in the magazine's sixth issue, in 1923. Eight have appeared twice: George Bernard Shaw (1923 and 1956), Sinclair Lewis (1927 and 1945), James Joyce (1934 and 1939), Ernest Hemingway (1937 and 1954), Andre Malraux (1938 and 1955), William Faulkner (1939 and 1964), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1968 and 1974) and John Updike (1968 and 1982). Eugene O'Neill appeared four times (1924, 1928, 1931 and 1946). Other writers include Russell Baker, John Cheever, Noel Coward, Graham Greene, Alex Haley, John Irving, Jean Kerr...
...main idea [for launching the drive] now is fall, 1992," says Ernest E. Monrad '51, Harvard's chief Boston area fundraiser. Campaign organizers had originally hoped to start the original campaign in September, 1991, but Monrad says this date will likely be pushed back a year to accomodate the changes in University leadership...