Word: faulted
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...policemen walk on fault lines In six novels and one nonfiction work, Joseph Wambaugh has followed their uncertain footsteps, recording the gallows humor and suicidal despair of California's blue knights. But readers have generally been able to take comfort in the notion that the men were, after all, fictive; surely real life was less melodramatic. In this tragic documentary, no such consolations are possible...
...understand," she said. "It was not my fault. I was raped by an English journalist called Alexander Utley, and when it was all over he told me that it was only symbolic, that he was re-enacting the Tudor conquests of Ireland. Do you believe me, Kevin...
...Askew's gotten coverage from us," Barone says. "If he doesn't do well, it's not really the fault of The Post. He's had his chance to make his case to the public...
Moreover, because the lines read so much like verse, the audience often finds itself--through no fault of the cast--awash in a sea of metaphors. "Be like an ocean with no boat," the dying person is prodded at the beginning of the performance Twenty minutes later, the phraseology has varied little. "Even if you were cut into tiny pieces you cannot die again. Emptiness cannot harm emptiness...
Administration officials privately concede they will eventually have to compromise with Congress and accept a tax increase, but they fault Feldstein for admitting it publicly. Says a top policymaker: "As a negotiator, Feldstein's a zero. If you want a compromise, you start by insisting on your position and expect the other side to voice its position. But Feldstein lays all our cards on the table face up before the game even starts...