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...allow meaningless discussion to continue. And, at a more critical juncture, when a few members grumbled about the fact that sexual harassment would be discussed in council and not in committee, Colantuono explained that he viewed the agenda item as an important and topical one, and gained unanimous consent to continue...
...docket now facing the Justices is not only the heaviest ever but one of the hottest in recent years. Among the more emotional issues is abortion and whether states or localities may restrict it by requiring, for example, parental consent for minors. The Justices will also rule on the constitutionality of a Minnesota statute that allows parents a tax deduction for their children's private-school tuition. Then there is the so-called Betamax case: Are U.S. copyright laws violated when video-tape-machine owners record TV shows at home? A critical case tests the legality of the legislative...
...make their case, Whipple and Perry examined more than 400 women who had signed consent releases permitting direct stimulation. The authors claim that the G spot was stimulated in all the women examined. But in part because the evidence for the G spot is anecdotal and testimonial in nature, rather than based on direct anatomical or tissue culture studies, the U.S. gynecological community is skeptical about the authors' claims...
...solution was to show only the center of the wide-screen frame. The trouble was that anything or anyone on the sides of the frame was ignominiously deleted. Actors would be dropped from a scene, dialogue would get turned into mystifying soliloquies, and mainstream commercial movies like Advise and Consent would be transformed into weird avant-garde exercises in which the disembodied voices of actors floated from opposite sides of the picture as the camera focused on a table between them. Other solutions, like cutting from the right side of a frame to the left within what was originally...
...American Telephone & Telegraph Co. (1981 revenues: $59.2 billion) have not dared pop open champagne bottles to celebrate the settlement of the Government's antitrust suit against the company. Reason: they have waited nervously for U.S. District Court Judge Harold Greene to end the case by signing a consent decree for the landmark agreement that AT&T and the Justice Department reached in January. Greene had won a reputation for pulling surprises in the eight-year-old case, and nothing could be set until he approved the deal. Last week the judge did it again, ruling that unless both sides...