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...part. Nobody currently acting could do the role better than Pierce Brosnan. Wake up, guys! This is what all of us women want to see, and we'll keep on watching Brosnan as long as he shows up on the screen. PHYLLIS HUMPHREY Oceanside, Californi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 18, 1995 | 12/18/1995 | See Source »

California seems to be a place where the nation's most progressive state court is forced to cool down the nation's most combustible voters. In 1964, Californi ans overwhelmingly approved amendments to their state constitution that prohibited pay-TV and rejected the fair-housing law that forbade discrimination in the sale or rental of private homes. The California Supreme Court subsequently voided both amendments as unconstitutional. This election day, the voters face another explosive issue: Proposition 16, which is aimed at sharply amending the state's anti-obscenity statute in order to "control the flood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Constitutional Law: The Meaning of Obscenity In California | 9/30/1966 | See Source »

...Most of Californi's inhabitants have emigrated recently from the midwest and border states. These new citizens face the disturbing task of synthesizing the family-orientated, conservative moralism of their hometowns with the sun-seeking hedonism of a state still entranced with the glamorous legends of Hollywood. the synthesis has not yet been made, and beneath the pastel tranquillity of the California Suburbia the struggle between the two ways of life continues...

Author: By Curtis Hessler, | Title: "Softshoe and Cigars" | 10/23/1964 | See Source »

America to the U. S. In the next seven years before he faced a 'Honduran firing squad, William Walker hoisted his own flag over "the independent Republic of Lower Californi," got himself elected President of Nicaragua, was involved in a fight with ten countries, became No. i U. S. soldier of fortune, alternately a hero, a joke and a villain. Told this week in The Filibuster, his story fills 350 large pages with an adventure story as absorbing, fast-moving and as incredible as any so far dug out of that period of sleazy brigandage below the Rio Grande...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bootleg Imperialist | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

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