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...Corp. has tried to add a sense of the unexpected by using nonprofessional actors and basing the episodes on actual Chinese court cases, but compared with Judge Judy, whose apoplectic reactions to evidence give her show a fierce moral compass, TV Court seems heavily scripted. "Look, she shed a tear!" says a producer as a character suing her sister over an inheritance grows lachrymose...
Furthermore, Keel claims that she and her roommate were verbally and physically harassed by a group of roughly 25 men when they attempted to tear down the statue with a cardboard tube at 1:30 a.m. the morning after it was built...
...before gene-splicing. Would the biologist-philosopher of Cannery Row have approved of tinkering with the genome? What would he have had to say about the creation of genetically engineered organisms like the rapidly growing salmon we are raising in pens along our coasts? Would he have shed a tear for the late Dolly? Or would he have wagged a scolding finger at her scientist creators? And how would he have regarded the development of new plant species through gene-splicing - those ?frankenfoods? that raised European blood pressure about U.S. policies long before George Bush started talking tough about Saddam...
Here, then, is my proposal. We tear down Canaday, or a survey-determined, least-favorite House, and build in its place a large mansion with hundreds of rooms. (Maybe a pool, gym and Swedish massage center as well). Proctors will be forced to wear bow ties at all times and will serve weekly teas in our spacious dens, which won’t have chairs but only dozens of Japanese floor pillows. Other rooms will be filled with Zen rock gardens and mini-waterfalls to accentuate the relaxing mood. The popularity of this new housing complex will undoubtedly be overwhelming...
Hordon pitched in the prestigious Cape Cod League later in the summer, but according to Walsh his velocity dipped as the season went on. A checkup in the fall revealed the extent of the tear...