Word: expertly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...case centered on seven of 175 photographs that went on display last April. Five showed men in sadomasochistic poses; two depicted children with genitals exposed. Prosecutors mocked the claim that the pictures had aesthetic value. But the jurors seemed to have been swayed by expert testimony that Mapplethorpe's work was indeed serious art. Summed up defense attorney H. Louis Sirkin: "There is a protection out there, and it's the greatest document ever written...
After more than two decades of practice, Yasser Arafat has become an expert in the fine art of survival. Now the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization will once again have to use all his skills to find a way through the current crisis. By refusing to condemn Iraq's conquest of Kuwait, Arafat has infuriated many of his Arab backers, alienated Western powers that had only recently begun to warm to him, and driven Israeli doves into the camps of the hawks...
...OPEC Expert Cites Oil as Cause of Crisis...
While acknowledging that several historical factors shaped the current crisis in the Middle East, a visiting scholar and OPEC expert yesterday cited the region's longstanding oil rivalry as a primary cause of today's tensions...
Cincinnati has made a name for itself as a porn-busting town: Censornati. There is not a single X-rated theater, topless bar or massage parlor inside the city limits. That is small comfort to museum directors elsewhere, who fear they could be next. Some plan to testify as expert witnesses, hoping to persuade the jury that pictures may resemble porn but also affect the viewer in the more complex manner of art. "These photographs are not meant to titillate," says Arnold Lehman, president of the Association of Art Museum Directors. "They don't have that vacuous anonymity that pornography...