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...what he thought of a 343-page report on the economic outlook. Prepared by Democrats? No, by his supposed colleague in the high command of the Reagan Administration, Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Martin Feldstein. In case anyone missed his meaning, Regan offered the particulars of his contempt: "I disagree with Feldstein's assessment of the dollar, his views on the deficits and interest rates, his rhetoric about the future and his assessment of the budget...
IMPRISONED. Larry Flynt, 41, pornographer and Hustler magazine publisher; for 15 months in Terminal Island federal prison for contempt of court; near Los Angeles. Just after he was sentenced to a total of nine months in jail for disrupting two earlier federal court hearings, Flynt began shouting obscenities at Federal Judge Manuel Real and declaring, "I'm crazier than hell! I want a competency hearing." When he yelled, "Give me more!" Judge Real obligingly tacked on six additional months...
...obtained during a counseling session with the doctor, his wife and the girl. As a result, the stepfather was charged with child molestation. He signed a confession, but Amy's corroborating evidence was needed in order to prosecute. When she refused to testify. Judge DeRonde found her in contempt and ordered her confined in the county juvenile facility, where she was isolated in a 10-ft. by 12-ft. room furnished with a bed, toilet and sink. Deputy District Attorney Kenneth Kobrin said the detention was the equivalent of being "sent to her room." He added that the coercion...
...jail. Still, in spite of stiff official resistance, the Sunday Times managed to publish uncensored excerpts from the diaries of Richard Crossman, a former Cabinet minister. The paper also exposed the important position that Kim Philby had held in British intelligence before he defected to Moscow. Evans chanced contempt of court by publicizing the plight of Britain's some 450 Thalidomide children, afflicted with terrible birth defects because their mothers had taken the medicine during pregnancy. Litigation between parents and the drug's manufacturer had dragged on for a decade, in legally ordained secrecy. Evans' campaign spurred...
...calculated effects, which work well when she is playing self-consciously intelligent women. But interpreting a character who abandoned three children, shares a house with a rather shiftless boyfriend and a lesbian (Kurt Russell and Cher, both of whom are easier and more naturalistic performers) and shows her contempt for Authority by flashing a bare breast at its representative, she seems at once forced and pulled back...