Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that authorities have little solid evidence directly linking LeBaron to the murder conspiracies. Furthermore, since many potential witnesses are polygamists, they do not want to come forward and testify in public. Perhaps the greatest hindrance is outright terror. Says one suburban Salt Lake City investigator: "So many people are afraid of Ervil...
Other publishers were afraid to take a chance with James Joyce's Ulysses, which had been banned from the U.S. for obscenity. Cerf thought he had found a way to end this embargo, however, and went off to Paris to try to sign up Joyce. For once he had no need for cajolery. Joyce was so eager to sell his masterpiece in the U.S. that, in his haste to make the appointment, he was run over by a taxicab. When Cerf met him, he was "sitting with a bandage around his head, a patch over...
...shot the Three and Four Musketeers-though they neglected to tell the actors that time. This time the principals know. Reeve and Margot Kidder, who gives Lois Lane the sex appeal that schoolboys always knew she had, are already looking forward to Superman II, III and IV. Reeve was afraid of being typecast, but Sean Connery, who played James Bond six times, put his fears to rest. Said Connery: "You had better be good in the first Superman or you won't have to worry about the second and third...
There is still some hope that the ban will be modified. Many Italian politicians and educators are afraid that the new policy will hurt the study of Italian culture. Some educators even propose to ignore it. The government may in fact be softening its stand. According to an education ministry spokesman, the final law "will take into account the bilateral agreements between Italy and other countries...
There is something chickenhearted about this backing away from the sort of big finish that pictures like this implicitly promise. One cannot help thinking that the producers were afraid of making drama too strong for the family audiences that PG ratings pull in. The result, however, is a film of small appeal to any audience...