Word: quite
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tempos, to put it charitably, are free form; she has an uncanny knack for landing squarely between the beat, producing a new ricochet effect that, if nothing else, defies imitation. Beyond all that, her billowy soprano embraces a song with a vibrato that won't quit, as in Gonna Be Like That...
...insists upon taking the stand to protest his innocence." Should the lawyer permit such perjury? Yes, says Freedman. Despite the presumption of innocence, most jurors tend to presume guilt in a defendant who shuns the stand. To keep him off "will most seriously prejudice his case." The lawyer may quit the case, of course, but he may also have to tell the judge his reason-in effect, declare his client guilty. Thus, says Freedman, morality may sometimes require perjury...
Because he felt that "it might be fun to operate a restaurant," a Californian named Al Lapin Jr. eight years ago quit a job in television and opened a Burbank restaurant that specialized in pancakes. Lapin's venture has been good for profits as well as pleasure. The single place has expanded into 152 pancake houses in 26 states, all under Lapin's International Industries, Inc., which last year grossed $30 million...
Suddenly, gratuitously, Josef rapes and murders a little neighbor girl. Celestine, having quit that day, is waiting for a train to Paris when she hears of the atrocity, mysterious to the populace but transparent to her intuition...
Forty students recently quit a Northwestern University criminology class because the professor belabored obscure theories hour after hour. "To take something as inherently interesting as criminology and make it dull is a crime?he really had to work at it," recalls Senior Andrew Malcolm. At U.C.L.A., Senior Sharon Jones protests that "if I want to complain about a test, first I have to see the reader, then the teaching assistant; then...