Word: manness
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Julia is a mess. In her shiny green dress she staggers through a crowded L.A. bar, talking too loud, running her hand inside a man's shirt and saying, when asked by a stranger what she does, "I like to make people's dreams come true." The next morning she wakes up in the back seat of the stranger's car, he asleep next to her, and opens her mouth in a grimace of disdain, as if trying to spit out the memory of last night and all the other last nights. A 40-year-old alcoholic who keeps embarrassing...
...document classifications and multi-digit docket numbers associated with the case. For logistical questions, detail questions, questions about the nitty-gritty, day-to-day progression of the case since September, Isaac, who has been at Nesson’s side while others were on break and exams, is the man...
...ultimate check,” a protector of “liberty,” a “bulwark” against slavish adherence to the letter of the law. It is, in short, precisely what is needed for the success of someone like Nesson, a man who advocates for causes that hinge on breaking the laws as they currently stand. A belief in the power of the jury is what makes it worthwhile for Nesson to remind his students, in the midst of the skepticism over fair use, that it’s the jury?...
...rather, a continuous tug-of-war between sheer brilliance and a series of lesser qualities—childish compulsion, utter laxity, idealistic extremism—that shimmer on and off, sometimes apparently part and parcel with the brilliance, sometimes apparently harmful to it. Nesson is either the most intelligent man in the room, or he is the most insane, it often seems. Sometimes he is probably both...
...column. “Plenty of Nesson’s past and present students insistently say no. Nesson, they say, is ‘selfish’ or ‘lazy’ or ‘whacked,’ just ‘an old man bored with...