Word: freakishness
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...Harold Kasper, who directs New York State's unemployment insurance program, ran into one such case by sheer accident: while munching a corned beef on rye at an Albany delicatessen, he overheard a waitress complaining to a friend that another waitress was being paid off the books. Such freakish breaks aside, says Kasper, the fraud is extremely hard to combat: "The guy who pays someone off the books, how in hell do you control that...
...carefully reviewing the haphazard use of capital punishment, Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart concluded in 1972 that the death penalty was cruel and unusual punishment "in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual." A majority of five Justices used words like "arbitrary," "capricious" and "freakish" about the application of the penalty. They joined together to shut down the nation's death rows with a ruling that sounded to many like a constitutional ban on executions. Last week all possibility of such a ban ended when the Justices voted seven to two that capital punishment...
CUNNINGHAM SKIMMED BY a mob which had collected in the freakish April heat and packed itself against the gates of the ballpark, pounding on the walls and demanding to be let in. The ticket-takers had not negotiated their contract in time for the scheduled opening and when the management begged them, they said nothing doing. No one was moving and the thousands of privileged fans who had waited two years to see the redecorated ballpark weren't getting to their seats. From high above, a thirteen year old boy looked down from a ramp. Obviously he had connections...
Mandatory Play. That moratorium was reinforced in 1972 when five Justices, including the now-retired William O. Douglas, filed separate opinions that appeared to add up to a holding that the death penalty violated the Eighth Amendment because it was then being imposed in a "freakish," "arbitrary" and "capricious" manner. Seizing on the Justices' own dicta, a committee of the National Association of Attorneys General within six months recommended what it considered the best way around the ruling: "a mandatory death penalty for specified offenses." With unaccustomed speed, 35 states and the Federal Government have since passed versions...
...eels, armadillos, monkeys, parrots; and many, many, real, half-savage Indians . . ." From the careful watercolors of John White, Raleigh's artist on Roanoke Island in the 1580s, to the gloomy wildernesses of Gustave Dore 250 years later, the exhibition shows us the European eye adjusting itself to the freakish wonders of the New World. The dragon detaches it self from mythology and becomes an "igwano" or iguana; "a strange monster" turns out to be an opossum...