Word: anyways
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Anyway, they try everything to cure Tommy. He visits Eric Clapton the faith healer in a Marilyn Monroe worshipping ceremony peopled by a company of badly crippled and visibly retarded hopefuls who Russell must have gone to some trouble to procure for the cinematic effect. Later Tommy is left to devices of the Acid Queen (Tina Turner is a marvelous caricature, snake-tongued and screeching--the best thing in the show), and a 'psychedelic' scene full of neons and visual tricks that experimental filmmakers have been using for years. Soon we watch Tommy tortured by one sadistic relative, then abused...
...Board of Inquiry, after deciding that at least three of the four bishops had willfully violated church law, tossed out the charges anyway. Its reasoning: whether a bishop has a right to "usurp the proper functions" of other authorities is a doctrinal issue, not a legal one. A "doctrinal" trial can be ordered only by a two-thirds vote of the nation's bishops - an unlikely prospect indeed...
...unless they were weighing electrons, and the Harvard computer is due to be corrected shortly. What, in plain language, is the matter? "I could explain the whole problem to you," said an assistant manager at the business school, "but it would take several hours and a blackboard." Thanks anyway...
Despite these grim possibilities, there were those last week who held to an optimistic interpretation of Thieu's great retreat. Many analysts, especially in the Pentagon, felt that Saigon had realistically given up provinces it was bound to lose anyway, shortened its supply lines, consolidated its forces and prepared a more defensible perimeter. Beyond that, it could be argued that the Communists would have to divert considerable effort and energy to consolidate their hold on the surrendered provinces...
...work hours and patient care tailored to meet each institution's financial and medical needs. The hospitals also agreed to a C.I.R. demand that no intern or resident be required to work more than one out of every three nights, a practice most of these institutions now follow anyway...