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...maker a reputation as a film genius and made him an industry pariah for pursuing the taboo topic. In the title role, Welles is terrific and it is just impossible to reconcile the image of him as the megalomaniac Kane with that of the ursine talk-show regular and Californian wine salesman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Movie Sampler for Stragglers | 11/19/1981 | See Source »

...Beverly Hills Diet is the creation of Californian Judy Mazel, 37, an aspiring actress until she became a nutritional guru. Mazel allows only fruit the first ten days-as much as five pounds of grapes a day-and no meat, poultry or fish until Day 19. Some doctors say the book should be listed under fiction. A leading nutrition expert says, "If you went to a bookstore and bought a history that said the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1827 or World War I began in 1905, you'd be pretty angry." If followed too long, the Beverly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Diet and Exercise Dangers | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

...They accept the defense where the defendant is guilty but it seems unfair to send him to prison. This is a way for the jury to compromise." They are least likely to accept an insanity plea when the defendant is extremely violent or dangerous. Example: the trial of a Californian nicknamed "the Vampire Killer," who disemboweled several of his six murder victims, drank their blood and ate their flesh. He was sentenced to death but died, presumably by his own hand, while on death row. In less dramatic cases, says Dr. Russell Monroe, chairman of the psychiatry department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Picking Between Mad and Bad | 10/12/1981 | See Source »

...nearly a half-mile long lined with your usual Coney Island-style attractions--greasy food, greasy arcades, greasy drunks. But on the fourth, thousands of people of all ages streamed across a narrow bridge and onto the pier. The whole town was electrified by the screaming voices of Southern Californian maniacs. It was like all the crazy things you've heard about the people of L.A. rolled into one aggressively insane crowd. Firecrackers exploded a few feet from the crowd, some right in the crowd. Nobody seemed to mind. The bridge shook under the weight of the people. Across...

Author: By Charles W. Slack, | Title: Of Smog and Stucco | 7/14/1981 | See Source »

...Crimson also won in the first two positions, with Tiina Bougas dismantling Ellie Freeman 6-0, 6-2, and Maria Pe conquering Nancy Nyquist, 7-5, 6-4. For the Californian Pe, the match marked her fifth straight Ivy win in singles without a defeat...

Author: By Marco L. Quazzo, | Title: Netwomen Cage Bruins, 6-2 | 4/23/1981 | See Source »

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