Whatever "abuse of the writ" today's decision is designed to avert pales in comparison with the majority's own abuse of the norms that inform the proper judicial function.
Dolan might have decided to preserve a record of whatever verbal abuse was being directed at Anthony in case other incidents arose in future games, beginning with last Friday's against the Bulls.
He loves adventure and he'll take whatever abuse necessary.
Madame Secretary, given what you've learned on the job over the past six months, both about the nature and magnitude of the threat and whatever abuses may have occurred in the previous administration, do you think that the laws governing domestic surveillance need to be changed in any way?
"We ask forgiveness for the times that, as a church, we did not show the survivors of whatever kind of abuse the compassion and the seeking of justice and truth through concrete actions.
We know what Coltrane or Cleopatra or Churchill achieved when we pick up the book, and we process the stuff we didn't know, about their childhoods and their love lives and their abuse of whatever substances they may have abused, with this knowledge in mind.
These stately pessimistic reflections, however, are overlaid with a personal development: in the wake of a professional colleague's sudden death in an auto accident, and under the strain of erotic frustration and alcohol, cigarette, and sedative abuse, the hero of "Whatever" suffers a breakdown; he abandons his job, consults a psychiatrist, and enters a hospital.
** These stately pessimistic reflections, however, are overlaid with a personal development: in the wake of a professional colleague's sudden death in an auto accident, and under the strain of erotic frustration and alcohol, cigarette, and sedative abuse, the hero of "Whatever" suffers a breakdown; he abandons his job, consults a psychiatrist, and enters a hospital.
Whatever form of abuse it is and at whatever level, if it happens in a club it seems to be acceptable.
Ten minutes could be pared from the roughly 100-minute length without giving "Coup de Théâtre" grounds for a claim of critical abuse, but whatever the show's length, Kiki remains a captivating combination of caricature and chanteuse as she sings and tells and tipples her way through a survivor's tale worthy of Dickens in an age of rant, rock and rap.
