Word: meres
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...while blaming others he persists on claiming that his own father--who was no ordinary citizen or even mere Nazi party member--did not know. Perhaps a son should not be condemned for blinding himself to his Nazi father's guilt, but nor should he be honored for his mendacity...
...enterprise it chose was Jo-Pel Contracting and Trucking Corp., a firm set up by New York State Senator Joseph Galiber, who is black, and William (Billy the Butcher) Masselli, who has been identified by the FBI as a Mafia soldier. Merola charged that Jo-Pel was a mere front and that Schiavone had siphoned cash out of the contract by leasing Jo-Pel heavy equipment and receiving rental fees. Donovan, Schiavone and the other defendants contended that Jo-Pel was a legitimate firm, the leasing deal had been proper and, since the construction job had been finished for less...
...reversing that decision, the Supreme Court ruled that pretrial detention is not an impermissible punishment forbidden by the Fifth Amendment, because it is not intended as punishment at all. Rather, it was designed by Congress as a "regulatory" act, with the legitimate Government goal of public safety. "The mere fact that a person is detained does not inexorably lead to the conclusion that the government has imposed punishment," Chief Justice William Rehnquist wrote for the majority...
...issue in the Hart story, it was frequently argued in editorials, was not sex, it was character. There have been acres of speculation, some of it good and some of it mere psychobabble, about his will to self-destruct. But the question of privacy invaded remains. Why was the Miami Herald in such a hurry that it could not even wait to check its facts properly? And what right did Reporter Paul Taylor of the Washington Post have to ask Hart at that televised press conference, "Have you ever committed adultery?" To such a question, said Columnist William Safire...
...nude Helga with a black ribbon round her neck, face averted, floating in a soup of dark shadow, with the work on which it is based: Manet's Olympia. There, one has all the contrast between what is deep and what is genteel, between brazen, ironic intelligence and mere sensibility, between the harsh confrontational skills of a great talent and the tepid virtuosity of a popular one. This show is too much of a medium-good thing, and its ever docile public has been led to it by the nose...