Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...longer content to wait and see what stars Dallas' computerized system would locate on remote college campuses, Seattle and the other rising teams in the N.F.L. have beefed up their own scouting departments. Their model: Dallas, of course. Laments Gil Brandt, the Cowboys' vice president in charge of finding superstars: "We used to hear of a hot prospect at Podunk U. and send one of our guys to look at him. He'd be the only one there...
...justice--what Willard Hurst called "the substantive importance of procedure." The courts "will have to become models of fairness and due process--living demonstrations that justice is possible." The public--and the criminals--must believe that justice is being done if the law is to have any moral, normative content...
...largely incidental to both story and spectacle. Like the ballet interludes in a 19th-century opera, dance merely embroiders diverting decorations. Dancers dance only when one would expect the characters to do so--Cinderella daydreaming with her broomstick, or the guests waltzing at the royal ball--and the content of the movement is a trite and anonymous classical pattern. Cunningham's choreographic vocabulary is limited, ignoring both the music (a beguiling Prokofiev score) and any place of space outside the lateral extension of center stage...
...Labor minority of 312 can now stay in power only with the help of smaller parties. Callaghan needs the votes, or at least the abstentions, of the nationalists this week in the vote of confidence that traditionally follows the Queen's speech after a debate on its content. By winning it, Callaghan should be able to stay in office until he decides to call elections, possibly in early spring or, at the latest, next October, when his government's statutory five-year mandate expires. As always in British elections, the timing will depend on the political winds...
...Mary Tyler Moore Show went even further. News Producer Mary Richards was TV's first truly liberated heroine: a capable, ambitious working woman who was perfectly content to turn 40 without having found a husband. When MTM voluntarily ceased production at the end of the 1976-77 season, Moore's admirers quite naturally assumed that their heroine would soon return in yet another rich and adventurous series...