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...black vote. After G.O.P. gubernatorial candidate Thomas Kean defeated Florio in 1981 by fewer than 2,000 votes, a federal court ruled that the Republicans' "ballot security task force" had violated federal laws by stationing gun-toting, off-duty police officers near polling places in black areas to frighten voters away. The state G.O.P. eventually entered into a consent decree promising never to use such tactics again...
Quinn imbues his character with a gruff machismo. Zampano is a bold ladies' man, stupid and violent. He would frighten the people around him more if he didn't seem so ill-fated. Rarely is he effective in venting his desires or angers. This doesn't stop him from posturing as a refined man in hand medown-suits. Nor does it stop him from bullying everybody but paying customers. In fact, his apparent awareness of his own crudeness only increases his need to and pleasure in commanding Gelsomina, beating her and boasting about "how he taught her everything she knows...
...every turn of the conversation, despite Ellis' attempts alternately to frighten and entice him into recanting, Sasha insisted that the pictures and the people in them were what they appeared to be -- as he insists to this day. Of course, it is also reasonable to be skeptical of anyone with a tape recorder in his pocket...
...department is in a period of development, and any time a department goes through a period of development it's bound to frustrate some with going too slow and frighten some with going too fast," says Ian. H. Solomon '94, who is concentrating in Afro-American Studies...
...prince, wrote Machiavelli, must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves. Therefore, a prudent ruler ought not to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interest, and when the reasons that made him bind himself no longer exist...