Word: suited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...celebrated libel suit goes to trial -- but will anyone...
...matter the official outcome, in most libel suits everyone loses. The aggrieved plaintiff seeking to restore his reputation winds up giving far wider, more enduring publicity to the very allegations he wants to suppress. The accused journalist may win in court -- for First Amendment reasons, the rules are tilted in favor of the press -- but is less than certain of being vindicated. Often, a story that provokes a suit is legally defensible yet morally tainted by bias, animus or procedural lapses; the trial turns into a lesson in press ethics, with the reporter as the flustered pupil...
...libel cases have dragged on longer or sullied both sides more than the suit by Freudian psychoanalyst Jeffrey Masson against Janet Malcolm of the New Yorker, who pilloried him in a 1983 profile, that was finally brought before a jury last week. Masson, a scholar of Sanskrit who holds a Ph.D. from Harvard, contends that since the article was published he has been all but unemployable. No longer a therapist, he has written books including the critically acclaimed memoir My Father's Guru and recently taught media ethics at the University of Michigan, where he has been living...
...sensual and physical," says Dr. Richard Ratner, who this week takes office as president of the American Society for Adolescent Psychiatry. "Even in this era of feminism, rap songs preach, 'Take this bitch and f--- her.' Everything is more explicit. It's the difference between wearing a bathing suit and walking around nude...
Most common, of course, are those ubiquitous pieces touting the "real- life" story behind whatever fact-based TV movie is airing that evening. This month, for instance, local-news viewers have met the real-life policewomen who filed a sexual-harassment suit against the Long Beach, California, police department (CBS's With Hostile Intent); a real-life near victim of convicted murderer Blanche Taylor Moore (NBC's Black Widow Murders); and the real-life South Dakota woman who bore her daughter's baby (CBS's Labor of Love: The Arlette Schweitzer Story...