Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been stolen in April 1997, stripped for parts and repaired at a cost of more than $20,000. Though the Mercedes passed a police inspection on July 7, 1997, Lafaye's testimony indicates that there were still some doubts about its roadworthiness. Thus the question arises: Why was that particular car chosen to take Dodi Fayed and the Princess of Wales on a high-speed drive...
...Marthe in her housecoat at the left edge of the painting, timidly holding her cup. Yet, as so often happens with Bonnard, under the ambiguous surface lies a rigorous structure. He jotted in his diary a reminder to seek "big forms, even in small formats." His still lifes, in particular, are marvels of marking and disposition, suffused with a beaming warmth that was the signature of Bonnard's memory at work...
...Maibaum and Vincent Margherita of Warwick, N.Y., report the case of a 19-year-old woman who got into the habit of idly biting her metal tongue bar and one day bit down on it so hard she chipped off a piece of one of her molars. "In that particular case, all I had to do was grind the tooth and smooth it down," Maibaum says. "But if the fracture had gone down into the pulp, she would have needed root canal and might have lost the tooth...
...with a swiftness not seen since Robespierre. And for a judge, she seems surprisingly nonchalant about the law. "The law is supposed to be based on common sense. But in the last 25 or 30 years, legislatures have grafted onto the common-law statutes that sort of fit a particular scenario," she explains. "It's something that I was frustrated with as a sitting judge in New York...
TIME: Any particular message you want to bring to the students...