Word: outlawful
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Utah struggles to tame a body of water turned outlaw...
...frustrated novelist in Manhattan, contemplating his third mid-life crisis; the divorcee in Iowa City, typing out the beastly habits of her ex-husband; such writers might well envy the panoramic scene that Nadine Gordimer inherited as a birthright. The raw material is, to be sure, stupendous: an outlaw nation on a seething, exotic continent, with a social system based on a fiction of magnificent folly. Given such stories, what author could fail? Gordimer has been fortunate in her subject, but she continues to magnify this gift, to transform what is happening into fiction not to be forgotten. -By Paul...
...Union," said Reagan. "And he was never afraid to speak out against anti-Semitism at home. Scoop Jackson just would not be bullied." Let the people contemplate the Democrats' anguish over Jesse Jackson and his supporter Louis Farrakhan, who said that "the present state called Israel is an outlaw...
...called Hitler a "great man," albeit a "wicked" one. His latest provocation is to embrace Muammar Gaddafi. After returning from a visit with the Libyan dictator this month, Farrakhan reportedly told a congregation in Boston, "America, you should be ashamed of yourself. . . It is you who are the outlaw. How can a leader of a little country like Libya terrorize the world?" He told the Boston Herald, "Since it is not divinely backed . . . the state of Israel is an outlaw state...
...time that John Belushi finally bought it, in the winter of 1982, he had already made a considerable and enthusiastic investment in his own destruction. He had also bought, whole, every sorry, second-rate dream of success that American pop culture has to offer: the performer as outlaw, the outlaw as sha man; self-immolation as the fulfillment of a creative spirit that burns too hot to contain or understand; drugs as recreation, revelation and social challenge, a turn-on for talent, a tip sheet for personal apocalypse. He died, really, of the cumulative effects not only of the cocaine...