Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...term rush to judgment leave little time for collegiality. Nor are the divisions necessarily bad. Says Stanford Law Professor Gerald Gunther: "I disagree with the assumption that the country is best off with Justices who have a simple, predictable framework. More often than not those courts have been wrong...
...Dinner Party," often called "the first feminist epic artwork," creates the controversy that accompanies any political art. Robert Taylor of The Boston Globe admits to the cultural relevance of the piece, but adds that "as a work of art, however, it is valueless." He is wrong...
...spins with a clowning sensual appeal that overwhelms John Heard as Jack and Sissy Spacek as Carolyn. He twists his shoulders, rolls his eyes and straightens his collar with a sheepish grin that looks alluringly out of place on a man his size. He can never do anything wrong because he's just having fun. He's the kind of guy who never needs a reason--just...
...guarantee--somewhere in Boston someone will snap. "City desk to Eddie Moran," the radio squawks around 2:30. "We have a sniper in the Old Westwood Apartments, Norwood--the place is crawling with cops." And he's off, travelling fast down the deserted Southeast Expressway towards Norwood. A few wrong turns, but still there in twenty minutes--just in time to see the policemen return to the station. The desk sergeant says come back tomorrow, no information available, still in booking process, details in the morning, can't help you. But two officers who had just been shot at watch...
More often than not, the victim's "crime" is merely suspected sympathy for the wrong political organization. Some of the most bitterly resented violence has been committed by the government's own security forces. Police in the city of Santa Ana last week attacked a hospital ostensibly used to treat injured leftists. They machine-gunned to death three doctors, four nurses and a baby. Later, military officials claimed the victims had resisted. Said a local lawyer, incredulously: "With what, their stethoscopes?" Peasants, in particular, are caught in a catch-22 dilemma. Leftist guerrilla organizations often give farmworkers...