Word: writes
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Rehnquist is a radical," says Columbia Law School Professor Vincent Blasi. "Nobody since the 1930s has been so niggardly in interpreting the Bill of Rights, so blatant in simply ignoring years and years of precedent." Rehnquist retorts that such attacks come from liberal academics and that "on occasion, they write somewhat disingenuously about...
...repeatedly said that the best way for Americans to effect change in South Africa is to urge Congress to enact legislation against that nation. For this reason, Bok has asked students to turn their energies away from calling on Harvard to divest and to write to their congressmen...
...concepts and recoils from most proposals made by others. Indeed, says his erstwhile collaborator, Director Harold Prince, "Sondheim will find every good reason not to do a show." Once he agrees, however, his creativity is liberated by the confinement of specifics. Sondheim has said, "If you told me to write a love song tonight, I'd have a lot of trouble. But if you tell me to write a love song about a girl with a red dress who goes into a bar and is on her fifth martini and is falling off her chair, that's a lot easier...
...going into the hall to vomit. It means going into a morgue and smelling a stench that makes you want to wash your hands for days." In short, unflinching realism, a misunderstood term. Says Elmore Leonard, the macabre ironist of crime and punishment: "If I were to ever write a private-eye story, and try to make it as realistic as the stories I do write, what would he do? Private detectives don't do that much. You gather information in divorce cases, or spend a lot of time finding bail bondsmen...
...right Extremist Lyndon LaRouche. A preliminary survey by the Associated Press indicated that 40 or more candidates allied to LaRouche lost nominating campaigns for elective offices in New Jersey, California, Iowa and Alabama. One initially unchallenged LaRouche candidate in Orange County, Calif., was so weak that a last-minute write-in campaign for County Democratic Chairman Bruce Sumner came within 500 votes of stopping him. Sumner, who jumped into the race to halt the LaRouche onslaught, is expected to call for a recount...