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...hard to think of a more frontal assault on the First Amendment. The First Amendment may not have been intended, as some believe, to protect only political speech, but protecting political speech was surely its fundamental intent--an intent grotesquely violated by restricting political advertising at the height of campaigns...
...work under their belt, though neither, oddly, ever landed a movie-extra job. Hill did pick up some work as an extra for British TV in the '80s, a job he liked because you got "danger pay" for playing a soldier or policeman. "When the Troubles were at their height, it was considered dangerous," he says. "You wore big yellow BBC plaques at the top of your uniform just to make sure, if there were any potential snipers, they wouldn't mistake...
...like the nauseatingly responsible, health-conscious clotheshorse that I am, I make a detour to another, less pricey boutique. Still bent on adding something resembling height to my five-foot- five-inch frame, I find myself a pair of stolid, thick-heeled two-and-a-half-inch pumps. And every time I wear them, I try to ignore their dependable chunkiness, telling myself I'm compromising mere aesthetics for something far more enduring: The ability to walk...
...height of American media recklessness came with the reporting on newly elected Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. For the most part, the American press lionized this “elder statesman” and behaved as though the Palestinians had nothing to be upset about...
Most sketch artists ask witnesses to examine drawings or photographs meant to jog their memories. But that process can muddy fragile recollections. "Human memories are very malleable, especially at the height of emotion," she says. "Ask, 'Did he have a moustache?' Well, he does now, because you're implanting that image." Her interviews are long chats about other topics, with only occasional questions related to the pad she holds just out of sight. "The assumption is that this work is about art," says Boylan, "but it's about the complexity of memory...