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...Contempt, 5:30, 9:40; 8 1/2, 7:20, weekends...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge | 10/3/1974 | See Source »

...rest of the film is heartless, tasteless and noisily desperate. It is always sad to see an overreacher turn into an underachiever, but to find the tense talent capable of The Manchurian Candidate busying himself with feckless projects like this is infuriating. When Frankenheimer's contempt for the picture is not seeping onto the screen, his weariness is. One wants to (and should) turn away from the spectacle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mortuary Case | 9/30/1974 | See Source »

...Nichol presided in his St. Paul, Minn., courtroom over the trial of Indian Leaders Dennis Banks, 42, and Russell Means, 34, on charges stemming from last year's 71-day armed occupation of Wounded Knee, S. Dak. After Means called a witness a "liar," Nichol cited him for contempt; later he threw Defense Lawyers Mark Lane and William Kunstler in jail overnight for arguing with him. The prosecution annoyed the judge no less. Nichol accused the FBI of "arrogance" and "misconduct" and Chief U.S. Prosecutor R. (for Richard) D. Hurd of deceiving the court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIANS: Over the Brink | 9/30/1974 | See Source »

...That will stop it. The American people will soon tire of the whole affair. Sam Ervin's committee won't last long. Nobody can really understand the complexities of the case. The House will never impeach. The Senate will never convict. At each turn, Nixon's contempt for the intelligence of the citizens he governed and his failure to comprehend their basic decency led him further into crime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: The Truth Shall Make You Free | 9/23/1974 | See Source »

...father, a populist Republican Congressman from Minnesota, had taught him to be totally self-reliant-"One boy's a boy; two boys are half a boy; three boys are no boy at all," Lindbergh fondly quoted him as saying-and the son always had a vigorous contempt for the herd mentality. Itching to fly ever since he first saw an airplane as a child, Lindbergh spent a year and a half at the University of Wisconsin. Then, unable to sit any longer in a classroom, he enrolled in a flying school in Nebraska...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: The Lone Eagle's Final Flight | 9/9/1974 | See Source »

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