Word: wrongfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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EISENSTADT IS particularly uncomfortable with being grouped in the literary brat pack that includes Ellis, Tama Janowitz, Jay McInerney and others. "I've gotten a lot of vicious reviews and I of course hate it," she says. "But you end up being criticized for what collectively is wrong with the books. Whereas there are things wrong with my book, of course, but they don't end up saying that because they're not looking at the individual book...
...centurion of right-wing values. And he prepared the ground for the President's reluctant compromise on a budget plan. Had such strategies proved successful, Baker's conservative critics might have forgiven him. But given the results, even some of his fans are wondering if he is the wrong man for the times...
...awareness of child abuse has increased, experts maintain that these pleas are hitting a responsive chord among sympathetic juries. Says Paul Mones, a Los Angeles attorney and parricide expert: "Courts are finally waking up to the problem. Kids just don't take these actions unless something is very, very wrong...
...early rock. His lyrics rollicked with internal rhymes, subversive satire and a wit that bent and broadened the language. He demolished the pop-music wall that had long separated singer and songwriter; now a man could perform his own compositions and do it with amazing sass. He could do wrong too, and here again Berry was a pioneer. Through decades of one-night stands, too much monkey business and a few command performances in stir, he fixed the image of the rock artist as outlaw...
...Young (R-Ak.) said, "It is wrong for us to keep protecting these ships using taxpayer dollars...