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...sons. All have done some time with Miles--the late, post-In a Silent Way Miles, the Miles who claims the influence of Sly Stone--and owing to their own ambitions and Miles's idiosyncracies, have since gone out on their own. The result is a music of distinct generations, like later San Francisco rock. But unlike those rock bands, who finally managed to develop reasonably unique personae, Miles's offspring have retained, in varying degrees, their mentor's stamp. Miles, when he talks to anybody, tends to grab inspirational credit (at the very least) for himself. How much more...
...operation is divided into three distinct parts-a sociological "profile" of the community, in-court scrutiny of potential jurors, and field investigation of their backgrounds. Preparation for the Wounded Knee trial began three months ago. Thirty volunteers spent five weeks conducting phone interviews with 576 people chosen at random from voter lists. The questions probed for signs of prejudice by asking about attitudes toward business, public personalities, police and, of course, Indians...
Swede Nelson himself, from whom the Award takes its name, lavishly praised Harvard's quarterback. "He has the kind of greatness and kindness given only to a rare few," Nelson said Saturday, concluding that Stoeckel is "a distinguished scholar, a great American, and a distinct success as a human being...
...first Ali-Frazier fight was everything it was billed to be. This one is not likely to measure up as well. Since the last contest, both fighters have shown distinct signs of slippage. Ali has lost the zip of his youth, if we are to judge from his two lackluster performances against Norton, and Frazier was pathetically outgunned against Foreman...
...approach of finding social excuses for pornography, or arguments such as "who will protect us from our protectors?" We must stop apologizing for pornography, stop talking about threats to our freedoms in abstract terms. We should defend pornography specifically on its merits, on the fact that it represents distinct minority views which have every constitutional right to exist. We should challenge the logic of Chief Justice Burger, who wrote in the new Supreme Court decision, "At a minimum, prurient, patently offensive depiction or description of sexual conduct must have serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value to merit first amendment...