Word: soft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...longest stretch he ever spent locked up was six months in Miami's Dade County Jail. He has yet to see the inside of a prison. "I was a very manipulative person," he says with a smile. "You tell a judge you got a drug problem. Judges get soft. They know what drugs do to people. They send you to a drug-rehab program instead of prison." Jail suited Woodley just fine. "You get healthy, you sleep good, you eat good, you get cable TV." Then you get out. "They don't rehab you at all. They don't teach...
...show-biz equivalent of "The Eagle has landed!" Even if their feelings were bruised, the movie's makers had reason to cheer. Now Philadelphia was not just a worthy film and a likely moneymaker; thanks to Kramer, it was a flashpoint for argument. As Demme says, with a soft laugh, "Any kind of debate about a movie is always stimulating to public interest in the film." Translation: controversy sells...
...smart? "Hardly," says Joe Biden, the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman no one has ever accused of being soft on crime. "Three strikes is the wacko" product of other Senators eager to outdo their colleagues on the toughness scale...
...Mather library is just plain different. Itscouches are deep and soft, its bulbous lamps evokeLando Calrissian's Cloud City, and its staircasecurves so tightly it appears muscular. The libraryalso distinguishes itself by subscribing to loadsof magazines. (Among house libraries, onlyKirkland gets more...
...Crimson extended that lead to 37-23 behind a jumpshot and four free throws by tri-captain Butler before New Hampshire battled back. Wildcat forward Kerri Eaton hit a soft in-the-paint jumper and Lane nailed three-pointers to close the gap to three at halftime...