Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Pacheco said police arrived on the scene around 12:15 a.m. When they got there, he said, they noticed that the number of people in the dining hall far exceeded its legal maximum capacity of 350, and began trying to evacuate the room for fire hazard reasons...
...Japan, where the death penalty is legal, there's a protracted debate about it," he said. "I think the opponents of the death penalty are gaining...
...become apathetic because the tide is against me," said Claire L. Bierhorst '98, an American History concentrator in Winthrop House. "I'm from New York, where it's also recently become legal, and it looks like the rest of the country is looking to it as an answer...
...himself in China negotiating a cable television deal with the government, and then just as quickly and easily finds himself in bed with a beautiful Chinese model--a surefire recipe for disaster. Sure enough, he awakens to find her murdered and himself under arrest for the crime. The ensuing legal battle is at the same time strange and unnatural for Moore and strangely familiar to the audience...
...only at the end--when the precarious balance between courtroom drama and culture clash falls--that things fall apart. The climax of what promised to be a fulfilling logical legal setup is mired in the Chinese-English conglomeration to be easily understood. The end sequence consists of swirling and complicated plot ideas, none properly explained (at least not in English). Although the punchline of the scene is suitably shocking and unexpected, it will elicit more of a "Huh?" than a satisfied...