Word: compliant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cruel but rich in comic relief, Chicago follows the murder trial of Roxie Hart, a "foxy lady" who has one of her many affairs with a furniture salesman, shoots him in a rage and then talks her compliant husband into confessing to the murder. He blows her cover, however, and Roxie finds herself in the friendly confines of the Cook County Jail where the lady inmates, fresh from the opening and most impressive number entitled "All That Jazz", dance cell-door-in-hand to the beat of "Cell Block Tango...
...Sudden Rush for Blood" [Nov. 22]: Whom are we really trying to protect? Surely not Gary Mark Gilmore. I understand the right of appeal to be just that-a right, a privilege-not a demand to be forced on a compliant convicted person...
Gnomon lodged a compliant with the Massachusetts attorney general, claiming J. August was illegally selling under cost. But the attorney general's office never took action on the matter. Gnomon also fought back directly by offering the J. August price to customers who specifically requested...
...peccadillo (knocking that cake from a woman's hands) was exaggerated into "hooliganism," which is a felony in the Soviet Union. The possession of Zionist literature became evidence of treasonous intent. Even so, convictions had to be obtained by means of crudely rigged trials presided over by compliant or, in some cases, intimidated court officers...
...psychological tests revealed a person with a "childlike level of functioning," one with a "lack of self-esteem and shattered pride." The stories she made up were "sad, hopeless, with nostalgia about the past." Describing human characters in one test, she tended to use such words as "dutiful and compliant"-a common response, West told the jurors, among former prisoners of war. (One sharp judgment made by Patty: asked to finish a sentence that began "Most men," she added, "are assholes...