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...parents' warnings did make a difference. Parents who talked about their flower-child days and getting wasted at Woodstock seemed to give tacit consent by fondly relating their experiences. They didn't want to be hypocrites, and their children tended to go further because they felt no guilt. They were the kids who took bong hits instead of seminars...
...contrast, guilt nipped my fun right in the bud. Yes, I went on to disobey my mother, but only so much. I felt O.K. in doing so because on most other fronts, I went along with her. Thou Shalt Not Smoke Pot is not the 11th Commandment, I rationalized. Armed with that perspective and the sound of my mother's voice in my head, I could tinker with the rules and push the boundaries without being afraid I would cross them. So, Mom, it was your fault after...
...that he himself lacks. Stephen Rowe throws a downright spooky cast on to the character's obsession with Hjalmer and the Ekdal family--and the wild duck, its most obvious metaphor. Even down-to-earth, matter-of-fact Gina Ekdal, somewhat heavily played by Karen MacDonald, shows signs of guilt and unease about her past, despite her assertions to the contrary. Hedvig, with her luminous innocence and child's intuition, is the one truly pure and simple character in the ensemble--and is therefore doomed...
...which point Jewell decided he needed a lawyer, clammed up and left. Inside the FBI, there is criticism of Freeh's intervention. Agents speculate that if the Miranda warning had not been introduced so abruptly, Jewell might have chatted on and said enough to resolve the question of his guilt or innocence...
Kelly's lawyer, Thomas Puccio, who successfully appealed the conviction of Claus von Bulow, has labored to convince the jury that the young woman was drunk and the sex consensual. Last week a sexologist said the girl's hysteria could have resulted from guilt and anxiety over her first sexual experience. Several witnesses were grilled about the size of her beer glass. And unless Kelly takes the stand in his own defense, which he has not yet decided to do, the jury may never learn that a second girl, this one 17 at the time, claims that Kelly raped...