Word: whereupon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Whereupon Lockwood began a lecture on what he termed "the ABCs of music appreciation...
...Variations, based on Paganini's A minor Caprice. One of the unseen characters in the first half, the young woman's nearest approximation to a true love (Christopher d'Amboise), prowls his way through the fleshly entertainments of Manhattan, only to decide he is ready to settle down, whereupon the young woman reappears to accept his offer. Like the woman, the young man is an outsider: as his trademark red jacket proclaims, he is from Nebraska. Like her, he is dazzled by bright lights and the fast life but realizes there is no place for the heartsore like home...
When initially questioned, Michael Elstad blurted out, "Yes, I was there." Taken to sheriff's headquarters, Elstad was given a Miranda warning for the first time, then asked again about the crime, whereupon he signed a full confession. But an Oregon appeals court reversed his conviction, saying that the first, illegally obtained statement tainted the second and rendered it inadmissible in court. Because the "cat was sufficiently out of the bag," the state court concluded, Elstad confessed the second time thinking his fate was sealed. Justice O'Connor, writing for the majority, found this kind of "psychological" analysis unpersuasive. There...
...world better after his smoke. Indeed, in the tense days of 1962 he sent Pierre Salinger, his cigar-loving press secretary, out one night to round up a thousand of the Upmanns. A bewildered Salinger appeared next morning to assure the President he had commandeered this great treasure, whereupon J.F.K. sighed, "Thank goodness, I can sign this." He pulled the Cuban trade embargo from his desk and penned his signature, ending, among other things, the importation of Havana cigars. The world, as we well know, has never been as mellow since...
...example. Bloom County star Milo Bloom dreams of being a syndicated cartoonist thrown into the dungeon for missed deadlines, where he is hung on the wall in chains next to a bearded prisoner. The bearded prisoner jokes that he has been in the cellar for nine months, whereupon Milo says "nine months? Wait a minute. Gary Trudeau?...Mum's the word." Nor does Breathed hold back from poking fun at himself. In one of the funniest cartoons in the book, the bewildered young Yaz Fistachio complains that there is no weirder name in the world than her own. Opus...