Word: sugarman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more likely, to engage in lower-level violence. Many researchers hypothesize that women's acts of aggression are often in self- defense. Yet men, because of their greater strength, inflict more injuries. "When you are talking about severe violence, it's a man's court," says David Sugarman, a professor of psychology at Rhode Island College. Researchers have also discovered that the longer couples stay together, the more probable it is that violence will surface. Observes Daniel O'Leary, a professor of psychology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook: "The likelihood of aggression increases...
...time when the aims of modernism and the tastes of a broad public are not always in accord, some of that art, like Tilted Arc, has met with hostility or indifference. One federal judge in Baltimore even organized his judicial colleagues in a bid to block a George Sugarman sculpture planned for the plaza of the courthouse where he worked, insisting that the piece could be a launching pad for terrorist attacks...
...Sugarman's spirited confection was installed anyway, and still stands. Other works have not been so lucky. Last year the Washington State legislature voted to remove from its chambers murals it had commissioned in 1980. Artists Alden Mason and Michael Spafford went to court. In a novel ruling, State Superior Court Judge Terrence Carroll held that the works themselves had rights that prohibited their destruction, though not their removal. But Mason, like Serra, says his work is site specific and that moving it is tantamount to destroying...
...fourth quarter last year partly because people flocked to return the initial version of its Adam computer, which the company offered for $600. In a statement to shareholders, Coleco blamed much of the consumer dissatisfaction on "manuals which did not offer the first-time user adequate assistance." Observes Joseph Sugarman, president of J S & A, a mail-order house that specializes in high-tech merchandise: "Very often, items with the highest rate of return are those where customers are frustrated with the instructions." Coleco has reintroduced the Adam computer, complete with a new instruction manual...
...clear manual can be a thing of beauty and a joy forever. "Those that are well thought out make good reading," says Catalogue Merchant Joseph Sugarman. "They sound as if they were written by a teacher with plenty of patience who is aware of all the mistakes a consumer can make...