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...hard-boiled city with no more personality than a paper cup." During Marlowe's investigations-adventures that were moral tournaments, really-he had watched the city change. "Los Angeles was just a big dry sunny place with ugly homes and no style, but goodhearted and peaceful," Marlowe thought aloud. "I used to like this town. A long time...
...must confess this has been a profoundly disturbing and disappointing experience. One cannot but deplore the moral tone implied in these papers." Then Graham went on to offer a curious apologia for the President. He refused to judge Nixon's conduct as reflected in the transcripts and wondered aloud at the capacity of others to do so: "A nation confused for years by the teaching of situational ethics now finds itself dismayed by those in Government who apparently practiced...
...Democratic regime. Nollau pointed out several obvious errors in the purported CIA paper, and sought a court injunction to prevent Capital from printing the article. Citing "new information," the magazine promptly decided not to publish. By then, the episode had generated such a furor that Chancellor Helmut Schmidt worried aloud that West Germany might be succumbing to "spy hysteria...
...cinema-verite documentary. Although Jones denies it, some of his scenes look as if he had employed a somewhat older style, where the film maker used the real people to recreate and explain what had occurred. Whatever the cause, a certain dogged clumsiness prevails throughout, as when Ross ruminates aloud, "Many of the staff don't think I have any emotion," or when he and his successor, Paul Ssali, play a game of darts and discuss the difficulties of change...
...Judicial Court struck down all the Commonwealth's obscenity laws as unconstitutionally vague, leaving literally nothing taboo in Cotton Mather's old domain. To fill the moral vacuum, the Massachusetts legislature's joint judiciary committee drew up a bill so graphic that when it was read aloud on the house floor by Representative Barney Frank, spectators in the gallery gasped...