Word: recidivists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...budding show business career on hold. He is back in jail after violating his parole four months ago by soliciting an undercover cop posing as a prostitute. "It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy," says People page editor Belinda Luscombe. "No one likes a recidivist. His 'career' has stayed afloat because of his public appearances. But he can't very well wear his snakeskin boots in prison, can he?" Buttafuoco may be out of jail in 67 days -- just in time for Thanksgiving with the family...
This, my friends, is the recalcitrant question, a recidivist doubt still worth pondering, even if only for 15 minutes, even if only every Thursday. For in an age where our collective moral self-confidence consists in nothing more than a diluted brand of UNESCO cosmopolitanism, where our minds are so open that our brains fall out, we should ask nothing less...
...free and fair presidential elections. Aristide called his movement Lavalas, which in Creole means flood , or avalanche, and Haitians flooded around him in waves as he made visits to every corner of his country. Running against a former leader of the Duvaliers' repressive Tontons Macoutes and a handful of recidivist candidates, Aristide turned a lackluster election into a colorful political cockfight...