Word: officialdom
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...Boston's Claude Solana? His totally unexpected protest tempted Judge Lurie to hold him in contempt of court. But as Thomas Lambert of the American Trial Lawyers Association notes, "the glory of the jury is its beautiful lawlessness." It represents "the yeasty independence of the average man over officialdom." Perhaps mindful of such thoughts, Judge Lurie decided to give Solana the benefit of his doubt. He declared a mistrial and will start all over again with a new jury...
...title-including packing the assembly by replacing 200 old members and creating 102 new ones. The stratagem worked, but not without a few hitches; assemblymen refused to give their unanimous vote until Suharto promised to call legislative elections within three years and take steps to weed out a corrupt officialdom...
HAVING vindicated himself by making a statement of his own artistic humility, he attacks. He accuses the entire world of believing in its own artifices and of vesting them with pompous officialdom. Steinberg contrasts the substantiality of a painted chunk of rich brown earth and a simple tree, with the frenzied intricacy of man's nervous world, by juxtaposing the two scenes on cliffs separated by a narrow but precipitous chasm...
When Lawyer Stephen Greer-close friend and adviser to President Paul Roudebush-vanishes from the capital, the press and Washington officialdom suspect the worst. Is he in financial trouble? Has he fled the country to avoid exposure as a homosexual? If not, why did he spend so many nights in a certain apartment with a university professor? If President Roudebush knows the answer, he isn't talking-not even to Press Secretary Eugene Culligan, the narrator of this latest example of presidential pulp fiction...
...railroad telegraphist. During one encounter he playfully imprints her rear with a German occupation stamp-an indelible gesture that scandalizes her mother, who promptly trots daughter all over town, showing the handiwork to anyone who will look. Eventually, the crestfallen dispatcher is brought before a rubber-stamp congress of officialdom to account for his shocking behavior. Brandishing photographic evidence of the misdeed, a Nazi bureaucrat asks: "Miss Svata, is this your behind?", and prates about the "defamation of the German state language...