Word: pleas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...status quo will alienate the legal and insurance factions, and the fact that the Massachusetts doctors have been utterly callous in their reaction, the argument of the medical faction on the malpractice insurance issue is still the most convincing one. Though its rhetoric may appear territorial, the medical plea for moderating the run-away malpractice problem is a reasonable one with comparatively egalitarian consequences...
...genre retains its rounded invective and withering humor. The wicked lord, pondering the corpse of his rich, social-climbing bride, decides to prop her up at the table: "Stretched out on the floor could only encourage the lowest of surmises." His equally malicious mother, listening to the plea on bended knee of the duped servant's wife, says imperiously, "Get up, child. A thing is not made more impressive by being said by a dwarf." Lest anyone miss the relevance of this portrait of privilege, Bond and Composers Nick Bicat and John McKinney have interspersed 15 eerie, offbeat songs, their...
...plea, which explicitly admits neither guilt nor innocence, acknowledges that the prosecution has a strong case...
...compromises, ulcers and the final sullen handshake. But Director Terry Gilliam is no gentleman warrior. Finding his picture in distribution limbo after Universal Pictures refused to release his film (which he had shot according to the approved script and delivered on budget), Gilliam went public with a full-page plea in Daily Variety to the president of Universal's parent company, MCA: "Dear Sid Sheinberg: When are you going to release my film, Brazil...
...Rajneesh plea bargained himself out of the charges--and the country--for a cool $400,000 in cash. He left for India that afternoon...