Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This is why King worked through non-violent protest and within the American legal system, not against...
...RENO'S REDEMPTION When tragedy strikes the destitute and downtrodden, Reno and her sidekick, Gramps (Abe Vigoda), dole out free legal advice and a hefty shoulder...
Bondi and Reif had asked MOMA to keep the works in New York until the legal title to the pictures was clarified. "The museum," said Reif, "must make a moral determination on this." Exactly wrong: the museum's responsibility for moral issues stops with the works in its own collection. MOMA had a loan contract with the Leopold Foundation to return the works to Vienna as soon as the show closed. Such contracts are, of course, vital to the arrangement of institutional art loans. The free circulation of works of art among museums depends on them...
...music? The Grammy nominators seem to think so. The five codgers competing for best rock vocal boast an average age of 51. Bob Dylan received his first Grammy nomination before four of the five female nominees were born. The women's division skews significantly younger and includes the barely legal Fiona Apple...
...Espy, the former cabinet secretary, did is just awful, members of Congress will be the first to tell you. But what gets a Cabinet officer like Espy indicted (about $35,000 worth of tickets and favors from the likes of chicken czar Don Tyson) turns out to be perfectly legal for the lawmakers clamoring for his head. So many members find their way to the Super Bowl each year that they almost have a quorum in the stadium. Last month, Speaker Newt Gingrich flew to London first class with his wife ($20,268), staying at Claridge...