Word: proof
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...before the court is not the literary standing of the estimable Higgins. It is a spreading gray ooze of lesser lawyer novels with indistinguishable titles, written perhaps for love, perhaps for glory, but probably to capitalize on the dumbfounding popularity of lawyer novels by Scott Turow (The Burden of Proof, Presumed Innocent) and John Grisham (The Firm, The Pelican Brief...
Sound a little paranoid? Cube acknowledges that ("My mind's playing tricks on me too") while simultaneously justifying his high anxiety. A native of South Central Los Angeles, he wears that city's riots like a crown of thorns, invoking them again and again as proof of his worst fears about America. On Now I Gotta Wet 'Cha, he goes after the white cops in the Rodney King episode: "Those devils can beat up a motorist/ And get nothing but a slap on the wrist/ Gorillas, gorillas/ Report to the mist...
...Bayog last year, alleging she had driven him to his death by using an unorthodox treatment to regress Lozano, 28, to the psychological state of a three-year-old. The family also claimed that Bean-Bayog had seduced Lozano, and filed thousands of pages of documents in court as proof, including a set of flashcards she made for him which contained references to "phenomenal...
...tempting it is for a star-spangled American patriot to view Europe's growing Bill-and-Hillary fascination as proof that the world still needs a strong and resolute U.S. Europe's woeful incapacity to stop the near genocidal carnage in Bosnia buttresses this argument, as do the American troops whose orders read "Somalia." Yet imagine the reaction if the new Democratic President were someone older and grayer, a Walter Mondale, say, or a Lloyd Bentsen. An aura of anticipation? Unlikely. Rather, the likely response would be a halfhearted shrug at business as usual in the global amphitheater...
...Germans, either justly or unjustly, are held to a higher burden of proof when moral and racial matters, such as the current treatment and status of Germany's estimated 1.4 million refugees, are at stake. And though the sins of the fathers are, rightfully or wrongly, visited upon the sons, it is also a fact that the victimization of the fathers may lead to a certain moral blind spot in the sons. So, in judging the present emotion-filled crisis of the refugee presence in Germany, it seems to me all the more necessary to strive for an evenhandedness...