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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...back roads of Kennebunk, quaffing Colt .45, the completely unique experience. With Mike, it was. Mike took his drinking seriously, but had a morbid funny bone when it came to close calls. One winter night, after upsetting a 16 oz. Colt in my lap by skidding around a corner and ramming a snowbank, Mike looked over and grinned his best boyishly sinister grin. "It's a good thing for snow," he said. I asked why. He just pointed to the snowbank. Behind it were three ominous looking pine trees...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Petering Out | 1/25/1974 | See Source »

...after a series of stunning victories, the civil libertarians are no longer winning. They certainly have pushed the censors into the corner, so that now the issue squarely revolves around what the vast majority of the public (civil libertarians included) would label "pornography," according to Webster's. Out of court, no longer are we asking "is it pornography?" but "why not pornography?" The courtroom is another story, however, since legal precedent supports the censorship of pornography in principle (Roth v. U.S., 1957). In the past, in court, the battle assumed absurdist dimensions: was Deep Throat "educational" in nature...

Author: By Emanuel Goldman, | Title: Defending Pornography on Its Merits | 1/22/1974 | See Source »

...seems to me totally unthinking for a person to drive a power-steered -braked and -shifted, heavily insured (does its owner insure his own life so well?), overstuffed, $5,000 or more investment to the corner store or even 35 miles to work when something half the size and cost will do the job, polluting half as much and perhaps giving a little exercise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 21, 1974 | 1/21/1974 | See Source »

...team within one at 16:43, despite a close offsides call that many of the fans, but not the linesman, felt should have been called. Bob Peace then tied it up at 19:58 on a deflection that Murray had no chance on, as it ricocheted into the corner...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Harvard Drops Heartbreaker to Cornell, 5-4 | 1/17/1974 | See Source »

...walked down the corridor, around the corner, past the janitor and out of the I.A.B. I was proud of myself. Ultimately I had handled the whole thing pretty smoothly--except I wished I had brought a second piece of paper with...

Author: By Michael C. Winerip, | Title: The Autograph | 1/16/1974 | See Source »

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