Word: recidivist
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What's the longest time you've served in jail? Four months was the longest. [Police] tend to look at my record and realize that nothing they do is going to stop me from continuing in this recidivist pattern. Every time I go to court, you always see their eyes kind of light up when they look at my arrest sheet, which goes all the way back...
...shedding tears. Harry Osborn (James Franco) gets weepie over his father's death, and enraged at his belief that Peter was responsible for it; he vents his rage in the supervillain guise of the New Goblin. Before being transformed into the irradiated Sandman, Flint Marko (Thomas Haden Church), the recidivist hoodlum - and murderer of Peter's sainted uncle - goes all soft and moist as he clutches his young daughter's locket. Peter has a jewelry fetish too: his aunt has given him her wedding ring, which he plans to present to his girlfriend Mary Jane (Kirsten Dunst). But our hero...
...budding show business career on hold. He is back in jail after violating his parole four months ago by soliciting an undercover cop posing as a prostitute. "It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy," says People page editor Belinda Luscombe. "No one likes a recidivist. His 'career' has stayed afloat because of his public appearances. But he can't very well wear his snakeskin boots in prison, can he?" Buttafuoco may be out of jail in 67 days -- just in time for Thanksgiving with the family...
This, my friends, is the recalcitrant question, a recidivist doubt still worth pondering, even if only for 15 minutes, even if only every Thursday. For in an age where our collective moral self-confidence consists in nothing more than a diluted brand of UNESCO cosmopolitanism, where our minds are so open that our brains fall out, we should ask nothing less...
...free and fair presidential elections. Aristide called his movement Lavalas, which in Creole means flood , or avalanche, and Haitians flooded around him in waves as he made visits to every corner of his country. Running against a former leader of the Duvaliers' repressive Tontons Macoutes and a handful of recidivist candidates, Aristide turned a lackluster election into a colorful political cockfight...