Word: protractedness
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Mapplethorpe is most famous for his entanglement with the protracted and unintentionally humorous debate over funding for the National Endowment for the Arts in the late eighties. Always a contrarian, the critic Robert Hughes turned up his nose at Mapplethorpe by virtually ignoring him: "Conservative," he sniffed, "in every sense...
Stitching together the hundreds of controversial policy changes they had already approved in separate pieces, the House and Senate passed the Republican plan to balance the budget by 2002. Included are G.O.P. overhauls of Medicare and Medicaid and the party's $245 billion tax cut. Unless the plan is significantly...
Speer is a longer book than it should be. Protracted quotes from Sereny's interviews, while fascinating in their own right, lead to a wobbly, repetitive narrative that often lurches down bootless byways. A meeting with a Swedish diplomat, for example, provides Sereny with the excuse for a four-page...
After the protracted legal battle, a federal district court ruled in June that Faulkner, who was 19 at the time, should be allowed to attend the Citadel because a similar program was unavailable to women. After only a few days of training. Faulkner withdrew from the academy due to stress...
A MAN AND A WOMAN FOUND SLAUGHtered in their luxurious Beverly Hills home. A crime scene soaked in blood. Wealthy, attractive, clean-cut defendants with a seemingly clear motive for the murders. A riveting, controversial and protracted televised trial. And a jury decision that stunned many Americans, who had thought...