Word: sanes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Victimology has turned out to be the winning tactic of our era. In the Menendez case, the law has been so stretched that an "unreasonable" belief that one is in danger of serious harm -- one no sane person would harbor -- can be sufficient grounds for self-defense. How did we go from a society that brooked no excuses to one that embraces every explanation; from a society that distinguished right from wrong to one that understands all and punishes nothing? In less understanding times, two boys who chose the maid's night off to pump 16 rounds of fire into...
...ignore the pressures that come at me every day from the special interests in this state," Barrett says. "I always ask myself before voting whether a normal human being would consider my position sane and sensible or absolutely wacky, except by State House standards...
...Reinhart is a juror. There is no doubt that the young man in the dock has killed his Zen instructor. He says he beat him to death after hearing a parable that equated freedom with the killing of authority figures. The question is whether or not the accused is sane...
...column for the New York Post, his marriage that broke up over drinking, his relationship with the actress Shirley MacLaine), it begins to replicate too much of the smelly boasting and belligerent noise of a Blarney Stone bar on St. Patrick's Day -- a time and place that most sane people consider hellish, even if Hamill does...
Backing up the two lead adversaries, however, is an assorted array of comically drawn secondary characters. The best of these is Andrew Torrance, who as the male nurse at the Sanatorium is delightfully sane in the midst of chaos. With his mouse Cuthbert, he has some of the funniest moments in the play...