Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Many of the new state laws ignore medical definitions and rely instead on the emotionally charged phrase partial birth. In Arkansas, one of the states where new laws are being contested in court, Little Rock lawyer and state legislator Lisa Ferrell said last week that she knew the law contained no actual medical definition of partial birth but she voted for the measure because the procedure is "horrifying." The Arkansas ban, like the one passed by Congress, does not take into account the health of the pregnant woman or make a distinction between a viable fetus and a nonviable...
...Nothing foreign is human to me" is the cry of the lynch mob. The mob does not wish to listen to the psychiatrist--or to the theologian, or to the lawyer. A civilized mind, on the other hand, has all four voices (mob, theology, psychiatry, law) speaking to it at once. That interior argument is confusing...
...contrivances--adultery, pregnancy, illness, missing money--and so cartoonishly are the characters drawn. Mother Joe (Irma P. Hall) is warm, loving, doomed. One daughter, Maxine (Vivica A. Fox), is heart-smart and, since she's a mother, a font of family wisdom. Another, Teri (Vanessa L. Williams), a successful lawyer who has subsidized most of the family's extravagances, is, of course, the villain of the piece. Poor Williams: her pretty mouth is forever prissed in disapproval at her more sympathetic sibs...
...attorney for Spelling Entertainment Group advising them that Hart's summaries constituted "unauthorized derivative works of the property" and that unless he removed them from the Web by the end of the month--just before the sixth-season premiere!--Spelling would "take appropriate action." Hart called Greer Bosworth, the lawyer who had signed the letter, and asked, Why? What for? What's the problem? Bosworth said she thought the letter was pretty self-explanatory. It wasn't. There are dozens of Melrose Place-centric Websites out there, including sites devoted entirely to Heather Locklear, Daphne Zuniga and Laura Leighton...
...drawing traffic away from melroseplacetv.com the dull-as-Pravda official MP site? I tried to reach Bosworth for comment, but she wouldn't take my call. Bosworth referred me instead to a Spelling spokeswoman, who also couldn't say what, exactly, the problem was. ("I'm not a lawyer" was her line...