Word: standing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...held out by our Constitution and abhorrent to any conception of dignity. In downgrading men and women to the playthings of dictatorial caprice, it denies us our free will. Ten years after the Berlin Wall collapsed, we might pause to consider whether a vision like that should stand...
...been suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder due to his experience in Vietnam. In opening arguments, they cited a rope perimeter that Johnson had set up to guard the house from enemies, since "that's what you do in Vietnam, you renourish and rest while your buddies stand guard duty...
...scene, who testified that they set up the perimeter themselves. The prosecution capitalized on the error, dismissing the Vietnam scenario as a ludicrous ploy, and Johnson got the death sentence. The majority on the Missouri Supreme Court considered the defense's preparation good enough to let the result stand, because their mistake was not the "most likely" reason for the verdict and sentence...
...Artist] laughs, but his wife just keeps going. "When I need to talk to him around the house, I just stand in front of him and get his attention. But if you need to say what I call him, you can say I call him 'honey...
...quadriplegic forensics expert. Angelina Jolie is a young N.Y.P.D. beat cop who discovers an ugly crime, an unsuspected gift for intellectual detective work and, eventually, a romantic attachment to Washington's character as the two try to ensnare a particularly unpleasant serial killer. The movie doesn't stand up to close, logical parsing. But Noyce's direction is atmospheric in the dank, currently chic manner; his actors spunky and attractive; and the path to the final, rather conventional, revelation is strewn with grotesque and suspenseful difficulties. It's kind of fun--if you have the stomach for its more grisly...