Word: lawfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...flowers. But when I remember these things, it makes me very sad to realize that it has all changed. Even if I were to return, all of that is permanently gone. It has been destroyed. Older Tibetans used to say that the communists were destroyers of dharma (divine law). Perhaps, in the end, they were right...
...hoopla about the Fall TV lineup, most of the "new" shows feel numbingly familiar to me. Let's see: there are repackaged Ally reruns, a second dose of Law & Order and a Party of Five spin-off. And doesn't Once and Again sound a little too much like the old thirtysomething? I'm ready for something new, and I'm losing hope that I'll find it on prime time. So I decided to tune into TV-style programs on the Web instead. With faster 56K modems and built-in video players on Web browsers becoming standard...
...apparent reason, the media have become very excited about For Common Things, a book by a Yale law student named Jedediah Purdy. No one else is reading it, but in my earnest effort to join the media elite and thus get a promotion, I too want to write about this book...
DIED. DR. WILLIAM ECKERT, 73, forensic pathologist; of congestive heart failure; in New Orleans; on Sept. 17. Eckert, who worked on the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy and the Charles Manson murders, was a pioneer who encouraged collaboration between law-enforcement and forensics teams...
...movies, of course, the rules of mathematics apply less universally than the law of the fluke. Blair Witch was a cunning fluke; Happy, Texas is just the kind of smart, communal comedy (The Opposite of Sex, Happiness, Election, Go) to which the mass film audience has shown serial resistance. Yet here you will find an easy charm, a cleverly unforced sense of humor and a benignity toward all its genially oddball characters that Hollywood would do well to emulate. If moviegoers skip this one, they'll be missing a real treat...