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...area resembles not so much a city as a computer motherboard or a printed circuit. As Thomas Pynchon describes it through the eyes of Oedipa Maas in The Crying of Lot 49, "The ordered swirl of houses and streets, from this high angle, sprang at her now with the same unexpected, astonishing clarity as the circuit card had. Though she knew even less about radios than about Southern Californians, there were to both outward patterns a hieroglyphic sense of concealed meaning, of an intent to communicate...
Francis Ford Coppola made nudie films; Martin Scorsese's first feature went out on the grind circuit. Meyer (with his giddy editing style), Radley Metzger (who made elegant variations on Euro-smut) and R.L. Frost (a versatile imagist, heavy on the rough stuff) could have played in the majors. But most exploiteurs were amateurs--like Doris Wishman, with her mesmerizingly absurd tales of good women gone bad. The husband-and-wife team of Michael and Roberta Findlay, who, Weldon says admiringly, "made the most twisted softcore adult movies of them all," later concocted the fake snuff film, Snuff. They specialized...
...motion, if it is granted, will provide a new trial for McVeigh. But if Matsch rejects the motion, McVeigh's chief attorney, Stephen Jones, can also appeal the sentence and the conviction to the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver. The Court of Appeals, unlike the Supreme Court, cannot choose to ignore a request for an appeal...
Some advice for Flinn: go on the lecture circuit and drop some bombs there. Then write a book! Your financial security will be assured. It worked for losing prosecutor Marcia Clark; it will work for a role model like you. REMO P. CRUZ Glendale, Calif...
...constitutional rights of anti-abortion activists. The plaintiffs had argued that the law discriminates against the beliefs of anti-abortion protesters and violates their right of free speech and assembly. They also said that Congress lacked authority to pass the measure. A federal judge and the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia had both previously upheld the law, stating it prohibits conduct, not speech, and simply aims to further the government's interest in providing safe access to reproductive health services...