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...area's most prominent blacks had virtually no ability to restore calm. Johnnie Cochran, a prominent lawyer who helped outlaw use of the choke hold, said, "It makes no sense, because they are destroying their own communities. I don't think there's anyone who can talk to these people now. They will only understand the measure of force, the National Guard or the police being assertive...
...Price to break the rules, and the most binding of these was the integrity of the glaze: all color on a ceramic object had to come either from the clay itself or from the glazes that, through firing, were bonded to it. But this was California, the territory of outlaw artificial color, metal flake, Duco gloss, candy stripes, epoxy bases. Price didn't go for the mass and roughness of Voulkos' work; he wanted a more concise style of object, perverse in its craftsmanship and highly mannered...
McCarthy focused the bulk of his criticism ofBush's policies on "a growing disregard for theinstitutions of government. . .and disdain anddisrespect for the Constitution." Bush's supportfor an amendment to outlaw abortion indicates "alack of understanding of the Constitution orwillingness to exploit it for political purposes...
...hold sway. Shutting out the Russians, though, may prove more dangerous than propping them up. Secretary of State James Baker announced in January that the U.S. would contribute $25 million toward an institute in Moscow that will employ Russian nuclear scientists and presumably keep them from hiring out to outlaw states such as Libya and Iraq. The same logic should apply to space scientists and hardware, which -- as the hard-liners themselves maintain -- could pose a threat as well...
Bahia was an amoral place peopled by adventurers of all nationalities--the equivalent of the rough-and-tumble outlaw towns of the Old West or the exotic Casbah in Algiers. here, fortunes were won and lost and vice and corruption were the order of the day--hence the novel's title...