Word: california
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...great expansion of the "due process" and "equal protection" guarantees under the 14th Amendment over the past two decades has taken place largely in the federal courts, and it is to the federal district courts that people come first to assert their constitutional rights. Hill has struck down a California law barring aliens from certain public jobs, and is especially proud of his decision holding that to deny a black a job purely because of his arrest record is discriminatory. His view that Chinese students have a right to a bilingual education, first expressed in a dissenting opinion, was later...
After a series of strike-outs like last year's Same Time, Next Year and California Suite, Alan Alda has finally made good. In The Seduction of Joe Tynan -forget the dreadful title-he at last gives a movie performance that captures the brittle tenderness of his work on TV's M*;A*;S*H. As Tynan, a likable liberal Senator from New York, Alda usually ends up on the side of right, yet he manages to take the sanctimoniousness out of heroism. His Senator is self-critical, unpretentious and witty. He also looks great in a three...
...inflected rock, proudly rooted in rhythm and blues, that could pound your ears into flapjacks. Sardonic anthems like Personality Crisis and Vietnamese Baby did not sit easy on a pop establishment that was still recovering from flower power and cuddling up to the peaceful, easy feeling of the California sound. The Dolls made two records and then, in 1975, broke apart like true rock-'n'-roll kamikazes. Drug problems. Women problems. Career stalemates...
Comforting yet another notable client was California Divorce Lawyer Marvin Mitchelson. She is doe-eyed Soraya Khashoggi, 33, wife of Adnan Khashoggi, 44, a Saudi Arabian entrepreneur whose business deals have earned him at least $4 billion. At 15, Soraya, born in England as Sandra Jarvis-Daly, changed her name and converted to Islam to wed Khashoggi. There followed five children and duties, she maintains, as his adviser and global representative. Then came a heartrending discoyery: he no longer loved her. Five years ago in Lebanon, Khashoggi divorced her. That divorce, suggests Mitchelson, was invalid. Nevertheless, citing "irreconcilable differences," Soraya...
...Segal, and composed five songs for the score. Benson plays a cabbie trapped in an espionage plot who is lucky enough to have Elsa Lanchester, 76, as a sort of guardian angel. Her explanation of her role is vintage Lanchester: "You see, I have to go up into the California vineyards in an effort to help Robby, who's been caught by alien agents because his monkey that I'm taking care of has the secret for turning waste into plutonium or something. But I'm giving away the plot...