Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Avoid Probate, Dacey...
...change of venue-moving the trial to some distant town whose citizens are as ignorant about the crime as possible. A sensible remedy, but increasingly dubious when it comes to notorious "national" crimes. In the age of mass magazines, wire services and network TV, how can any living American avoid hearing, seeing and reading every detail, rumor and opinion...
...avoid the dangers in expelling Powell, Representative Van Deerlin (D.-Cal.) has recommended that the House exclude him instead. This action would deprive the New York Congressman of his vote but would allow him to keep his seat. Such a measure is attractive but it is also unjust. It would punish Powell's district for the offenses of its congressman, leaving Harlem without a voice in the House for an indefinite period of time...
...Indians only managed to avoid a shutout by upsetting Roche and Newcombe in the doubles...
...hack, an ex-television director obviously more comfortable composing shots within squares than he is filling rectangles. Unable to compose good shots, he frequently employs a split-screen technique, puttting two or more different images on the screen simultaneously, separated by black dividing lines. This enables him to avoid the challenge of coming to grips with Super Panavision. Unable to put shots together with any art or precision, he resorts to tricks; Grand Prix is filled with multiple image shots and dream shots done with prisms. His over-all use of trick photography is never relevant, always self-conscious...