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Word: felons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sounding adjectives attached to it to intimidate Roget, and the articles on the T.V. drug don't just proliferate, they pullulate. And one has to feel we have scaled the pinnacle of absurdity when T.V. performs a dialogue between self and soul and covers the trial of a young felon who blames his crime on T.V. derangement. Is that meta-television...

Author: By Daniel S. Benjamin, | Title: The Culture of No Culture | 1/7/1982 | See Source »

...bearded hippies loyal to the Movement. A few are enervated, gentle, Buddhistic Wasps. A handful are black. All around are flannel shirts, funny hats, sleeping children, the emblems of safe bourgeois funk. Not many in the crowd notice, let alone cheer, the arrival of one honored guest, Radical and Felon Abbie Hoffman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York: Howl Becomes a Hoot | 12/7/1981 | See Source »

...self-protection, even some convicted criminals. Consider the case of E. Howard Hunt, 62, who served 33 months in federal prisons, was fined $10,000 for his role in the 1972 Watergate break-in at Democratic National Headquarters, and is now living in Miami Shores, Fla. As a felon, Hunt is barred by law from owning a firearm. The former CIA agent appealed last April to state authorities, telling them he wanted a shotgun to carry on a family tradition -hunting. Last week, the writer and sometime lecturer also declared that he needed a gun to protect his home. Pleaded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 20, 1981 | 7/20/1981 | See Source »

...England Journal of Medicine have been treated to numerous such "first reports." Among them: cyclist's pudendal neuritis (genital numbness from marathon bike rides on poorly padded seats), water-skier's enema (the result of high-speed falls in a sitting position) and disco felon (a finger infection from constant finger snapping on the dance floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: New Maladies | 6/29/1981 | See Source »

Well, in the words of every high school football coach and that famous felon John Mitchell: When the going gets tough, the tough get going. King was bouncing back from public humiliation better than any similarly poleaxed public figure in a long time. She had slipped only briefly at the start of the whole ridiculous business. When her former secretary Marilyn Barnett for "palimony," a lesbian relationship with King, Billie Jean first responded with a denial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Why and When and Whether to Confess | 5/18/1981 | See Source »

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