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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite his best efforts, which included a book detailing the grisly conditions at Tucker and Cummins, and appearances on the Dick Cavett show, Murton could not prevail upon Arkansas state authorities to investigate the murders, despite the existence of an unlimited statute of limitations on murder. Only in 1970 was Murton vindicated when the Supreme Court ruled that confinement in Arkansas prisons was cruel and unusual punishment and therefore unconstitutional...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Cool Hand Bob | 6/27/1980 | See Source »

...cannot forgive them for is not so much their alleged failure to criticize [Joseph] McCarthy but ... their criticism of the crimes of Stalin and his successors during the forty years in which she apologized for them." When Novelist Mary McCarthy made equally hostile remarks about Hellman on the Dick Cavett Show, a lawsuit followed. Hellman is unlikely to take Hook to court; his evidence is clear, weighty and damning. But even here, he insists on a scorched-earth policy. The fumbling, revisionist introduction to Hellman's Scoundrel Time, by Garry Wills, "has unconsciously reconstructed the Kremlin's propaganda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rising Gorge | 4/28/1980 | See Source »

...what he calls "two vertiginous occasions." His impression: "The other talk shows in which I have taken part were all saunas by comparison with Carson's. Merv Griffin is the most disarming of ego strokers; Mike Douglas runs him a close second in the ingratiation stakes; and Dick Cavett creates the illusion that he is your guest, enjoying a slightly subversive private chat. Carson, on the other hand, operates on a level of high, freewheeling, centrifugal banter that is well above the snow line. Which is not to say that he is hostile. Carson treats you with deference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lost and Found in the Stars | 1/21/1980 | See Source »

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