Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tragedy, "Beyond All Reason: My Life with Susan Smith." While Susan Smith's lawyers were expected to attack her ex-husband for the book, TIME's Lisa Towle says Smith seems to have won over the jury by claiming that all proceeds will go to children's charities except $20,000 he'll use for living expenses while he relocates. Towle says Smith makes his most damaging point -- that Susan, rather than their sons, has been inappropriately pegged as the victim -- in a persuasive passage near the end of his book. Having decided not to make up his mind about...
...stories I knew about Hollywood tragedies and scandals to some friends, and they'd never beard of these stories, so they encouraged me to put these in book form Hollywood reacted to the book surprisingly benignly. I've never been sued by any of the celebrities I wrote about except for the Gloria Swanson...
...from my job." Dole says that will not happen and bristles at suggestions that she somehow controls him. "I don't know if any of these people know Sheila or know what she does,'' he told Time. "She doesn't have any agenda, as far as I know, except carrying out the Republican agenda...
...buzz of irrelevant interpretation. The expressionless young woman in virginal white, standing on a wolfskin with a lily in her hand (that floral emblem of the Aesthetic Movement), was declared to be a bride the night after; or a fallen ex-maiden; or a victim of mesmerism--anything, except what she was, a model posing in Whistler's studio to give him a pretext to paint shades of white with extreme virtuosity and subtlety. The story was that there was no story; it was Whistler's first sally against the narrative tradition in English art, though by no means...
...Maintaining a list of newsgroups unacceptable for children would make a major difference in access to available porn. A law requiring those who design Internet mail systems to implement secure parental control would allow parents and teachers fuller control of what children have access to, and would satisfy everyone except those who object to such control. PETER SCARGILL Newcastle, England...