Word: palmed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...palm-top encyclopedia packed with 620,000 batting and 270,000 pitching statistics on every player who ever wore cleats in the majors. Franklin Electronic Publishers...
Terry Anderson is talking now, but Furnad's main concern is the West Palm Beach courtroom, where testimony is resuming. "C'mon, Terry, speed it up," he urges. At 4:20 Anderson finally finishes. Turn on the anchor's mike ("He's leaving! Talk, Lou!"), cut to a commercial, then back to the trial. Only seven minutes of the accuser's testimony has been missed; her emotional account of the incident is yet to come. Count it another CNN success...
...year's flash points, then, were all the more blinding. Surely Patricia Bowman, the accuser in the Palm Beach rape case, never expected that she would watch a forensics expert peer through her black panty hose at more than 3 million viewers nationwide. The producers of Thelma & Louise could not have imagined that their cockeyed vision of two women on an ill-fated spree would set off a national debate about misogyny, male bashing and the power of feminine anger ungirdled. And certainly neither Clarence Thomas nor Anita Hill could have guessed that their private friction a decade ago would...
...room for argument. The female accusers gave credible testimony; they seemed to have little to gain, and a great deal to lose, by coming forward with their charges; they both took on men with powerful allies and vast resources to counterattack; they both passed lie- detector tests. Would the Palm Beach decision have changed if the jury had been allowed to hear the testimony of the three other women who have stories of sexual violence during encounters with Smith? Would the Thomas vote have gone differently if his story had been challenged as relentlessly as hers was; if the Senators...
...abstract parlor conversation about the differences between the sexes. The events of 1991 may have been unusual in their celebrated luridness, but they raised basic issues that touch everyone's life. A few observers noticed that in the wake of the Thomas-Hill confrontation, the analysis of the Palm Beach trial was slightly more nuanced, more sophisticated in its discussion of so charged an issue as acquaintance rape. The politics may have been vicious, but the Senate passed and the President signed a civil rights bill that will finally allow victims to collect punitive damages in harassment cases. Employers...