Word: rereadings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...five-hour summation to the jury on Thursday, Barr told the jurors to reread the disputed paragraph and ask themselves if it fit the judge's test * of defamation. "Look at the words again," Barr said. "Do the words say that? Do the words mean that to you?" If not, he said, "that's it. The case is over." Barr reminded the jurors of the testimony of TIME Senior Writer William E. Smith, who wrote the cover story. If Smith had meant to convey that Sharon consciously intended or encouraged a massacre, Barr argued, "he would have said...
...difficult to understand how marking up library books helps these people study. Reserve books, after all, circulate overnight at the longest. I guess they mark up a book and then reread the sentences that glow in the dark. Or perhaps it is common practice to ask for the copy they have marked up next time they check the book out. I saw someone do this once, the person behind the desk handed it to him without blinking...
...best way to communicate anything more serious than a grocery order. For one thing, it enables the writer to devote a little thought to what to say and how to say it, rather than babbling the first words that come to mind. For another, it enables him to reread what has been said to him, to make corrections in his own answer, or to throw it away and start again. And finally, it provides him a copy of what was agreed or not agreed a month earlier. All the telephoner has is his illegally recorded tape, most of which consists...
...State George Shultz remarked, nowadays "it seems as though reporters are always against us." White House Spokesman Larry Speakes quickly disavowed Shultz, only to have Reagan say what Shultz was merely implying - namely, that since the Korean War the press has not been on "our side, militarily." He should reread history: wary of potential opposition from a determined Republican minority to the sending of U.S. troops to South Korea, Truman never tried to get a resolution endorsing his "police action" through Congress. When Presidents act in emergencies without full legal approval of Congress, they risk confusion about whose side everyone...
...only 13 years), and his camera was a most fastidious voyeur, observing every ruction of sexual violence with sympathy at a distance. Döblin and Fassbinder were a perfect book-and-movie match, and the young director knew it. He read Berlin Alexanderplatz as a boy of 15, reread it at 20, and realized that "an enormous part of myself, my attitudes, my reactions, so many of the things I had considered all my own, were none other than those described by Döblin. I had . . . unconsciously made Döblin's fantasy my own life...