Word: minore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mouth. In another a man's fist and forearm is seen inserted into a man's rectum. Two images -- a nude boy on a chair and a little girl whose dress is raised in a way that exposes her genitals -- led to charges of illegal use of a minor, though the mothers of the children gave Mapplethorpe permission to take the photographs and the center to display them. "Where would you draw the line?" asks Monty Lobb, president of Citizens for Community Values, a local group that first drew the show to the sheriff's attention. "Will next year...
...instead of revelling in the chain of minor successes that the representatives envisioned, the council couldn't keep half its members at meetings long enough to vote, stood impotent as the adminstration turned a blind eye to legitimate safety and academic concerns, and made the word "Subramania!" synonymous with constitutional chicanery...
...Vanderveen, she challenged his theory as implausible, and the two of them decided to investigate further. They discovered that Millette, who was found drowned shortly after Bern's death, suffered not from a coma but from acute schizophrenia. But nothing shook the finding of suicide until Marx met a minor comedian who had been a drinking pal of retired MGM security chief Whitey Hendry's. Hendry, shortly before his death, told this pal that he had accompanied Mayer to Bern's house that first morning, and it was obvious that Bern had been murdered. Mayer was terrified of scandal...
...Beverly Hills police department must dread having to haul local teenage millionaires off to jail for a grisly crime: the tabloids swarm, the rumors fly, the suspects hire the best defense lawyers money can buy -- and all those involved (even the minor players) act as if they are characters in the first draft of a convoluted screenplay desperately in need of a rewrite. Thus it has been several miserable months for the prosecutors in charge of the Menendez murder investigation; they are fielding two young millionaires, charges of patricide, disputed psychotherapy records and flamboyant defense attorneys claiming that vital evidence...
...personal documents Wolff scatters throughout The Final Club. The documents are examples of the institutionalized mix of truth and falsehood we all encounter and produce in forms like college applications. Clay's and his classmates' contributions to their alumni reports and their children's application essays to Princeton are minor works of literature compared to Pope and Dryden, but they posess a clumsy eloquence and--to their creators--are infinitely more important than some long-forgotten poem...