Word: milord
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lawyers are often seen not as guardians of the law but as sophisticated manipulators who profit from rule beating. Even the ethics counsel for the 313,000-member American Bar Association, Lisa Milord, concedes that all too many lawyers "are looking out for their own interests rather than the integrity of the legal system." The A.B.A. notes that in 1985 state courts imposed sanctions ranging from disbarment to probation on 2,396 errant practitioners, an increase of 44% since 1981. Doctors, wandering through ethical thickets freshly grown from a technology that gives them daunting new powers over life and death...
...many are missing here, from El Jaleo, 1882, the flamenco scene that is the masterpiece of his youth, to the Tate Gallery's portrait of Lord Ribblesdale, which, when exhibited in Paris before World War I, sent its public into raptures over ce grand diable de milord anglais. This show says little about its subject that was not put more economically by the 1979 Sargent exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts but is still well worth seeing...