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Exploding soap, toilet seats, wallets and cigarettes will surely shock unsuspecting users. If the situation calls for something less bombastic, how about a rare steak that moos, a screaming skull, a beer can that shocks the drinker, a shrieking ax, a hammer that makes the sound of breaking glass or a laughing mirror...
...Justices and quotes from E-mail sent over the court's computers. The book discusses legal history and doctrines, but it is the tales out of school that will no doubt attract the most attention. Lazarus repeats accounts that Thurgood Marshall, the court's legendary first black Justice, watched soap operas during the workday, and says he let his law clerks do almost everything but cast his vote. Lazarus says it was "received wisdom" among the clerks that Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was so peeved at Justice William Brennan for having "hoodwinked" her in a case that she refused...
...Mexico. Oncale had worked on offshore rigs before (and does today), but says he never encountered such abusive treatment as when he signed on with Sundowner in 1991. He claims, for instance, that three male co-workers held him down in a shower and shoved a bar of soap between his buttocks. One of them threatened rape, he says. He quit and later was found to have posttraumatic stress...
...enough heavy talk and tragedy to sustain an A.A. chapter. As presented by Keyser and Lippman, though, the relentless suffering is positively enjoyable. That is so partly because Party of Five offers the guilty pleasure of watching other people's troubles, but the show is much finer than any soap. When the competence of Julia (played by Neve Campbell with sensuous innocence and gravity) wounds her ineffectual husband, the moments are pointed and true. Keyser and Lippman produce a discerning weeper, and it has found a large, passionate audience...
Woodbury is partially clad--wearing underwear--unlike many models, who are concealed only by strategically placed soap suds--or not concealed...