Word: minority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proceeding began to bog down of its own weight almost as soon as it began. Giordano and his associate judge spent much of the entire first week just wading through the formalities of enrolling the lawyers and defendants. Half a day was lost when two minor defendants collapsed in their cages with epileptic seizures. Additional time was wasted when two of the six jurors suddenly found reasons to be excused; they had to be replaced by two of ten alternates. When one defense lawyer began a windy monologue, Judge Giordano impatiently cut him off. Said Giordano: "If we have...
Winters, of course, is by no means the first 20th century artist to get interested in minor life-forms that need a microscope, or at least a magnifying glass, to reveal themselves. One thinks of the buds and pods that crop up in Paul Klee's watercolors, some of which are fanciful illuminations of Goethe's ideas about the Urpflanze, or "primal plant"; or of the extraordinary images of tiny natural structures taken in the 1920s by photographers like Karl Blossfeldt, in which a seedcase can rear up like a Gothic tower, suggesting all manner of analogies to architecture...
...risky business. She studies literature at Hunter College, sells lipsticks at Woolworth, pastes fake diamonds into junk jewelry, and sits as a designer's model. But in posing for her own self-portrait, Simon has found a true vocation. Together, Bronx Primitive and A Wider World qualify as a minor American classic...
...said, "Our ongoing, thorough and exhaustive investigation has discovered no evidence whatever to support that position." On the contrary, he said police believe Salvatierra's death was the result of domestic violence within the home and committed by his son, whose name was not released because he is a minor...
...Monday to see a victorious Offutt gesturing on the front page. The Dudley House incident, which took up a good forty minutes of heated debate, was mentioned nowhere. On Tuesday the Dudley House incident received four paragraphs buried in the Offutt follow-up article, and then only as a minor element of the Offutt-Melissa Lane controversy...