Word: comforts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reynolds is soon offering aid and comfort to a damsel in distress. She is Sally Field, playing an industrial-show dancer who has deserted a yokel groom on their wedding day. He is a hopeless dummy, but his dad is not. His dad is, in fact, Jackie Gleason, portraying Buford T. Justice, a self-advertising legend among backwoods peace officers. He is determined to recapture Field for his boy. There is an endless chase, funnily staged by Needham. With the help of many CB friends, girl and brew are safely delivered from evil...
Seniority lists that deliberately discriminate are still illegal, whether they were started before or after the 1964 act. But that concession gave little comfort to lawyers who have waged crusades against job bias. Proving that a seniority system was set up with the intent to discriminate is extraordinarily difficult. The result: last week's decision almost eliminates long-established seniority systems as whipping boys for job-bias activists...
Dean Archie Epps' touch in these matters is usually masterful, which makes it particularly sad to see him misled in this instance. It is always better, I suggest, to trust the principle of free speech, perplexing though it is, than to hanker after the phony comfort of bureaucratic manipulation. The black critics of the Lampoon should simply be advised by the Dean of Students to grow up. Martin Kilson Professor of Government
...said.) Bentley was a quarterback, a winner. He had composed a magna thesis in two weeks working with very little research and a very shaky theoretical knowledge. Bentley was against nuclear power and for gun control. But for all of his ACLU Nader's Raiders sensibilities. Bentley--reclining in comfort on his waterbed, propped up by cushions--would grin in agreement as Kojak violated civil liberties right and left. To his amazement. Long John discovered Bentley applauding a particularly artistic gun battle one night. Kojak's appeal cut across political lines that spring...
...watching football, curses his bookie and tries to ignore the city's crisis until the fateful thought strikes him, "Is it a conspiracy?" Needless to say, it is. And Brinkley plunges into a crisis of conscience. Should he leave the repose of his suburban home, his loving wife, his comfortable desk job (he is no longer a tough reporter but a slightly paunchy copy editor) and once again save the world, even with his waning superstrength? Or should he safeguard his comfort, ignoring his boredom and his nagging Cronk conscience...