Word: diversionism
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Burt Young also manages to everyone the limits of the script to portray Jerry as a sensitive, almost childlike, individual, not merely the bumbling sidekick of the fast-talking Alex. As Patti, however, Ann-Margaret is listless; she seems to have given up on trying to inject any energy into...
Donald Pappa, a municipal court judge in Asbury Park, N.J., speaking for many of his colleagues, says, "When these people come before me, I feel as if I'm standing in judgment over my own parents." Even retailers, victims of most geratic crime, worry about sunset-years justice. Says...
Nagy's small Widener Library office--located behind one of those forbidding iron fences--is sparsely decorated, mostly with pictures reflecting not his interest in Roman and Greek cultures, but the culture of Pakistan, a fascination of his wife's. There are few books, the desk is uncluttered, and there...
South Dakota Governor William Janklow dismissed such criticism as political posturing. Said he: "No more water will be sold than what Missouri probably wastes each year through leaky pipes in Kansas City and St. Louis." But other Midwest Governors, especially those of the Great Lakes states, remain uneasy. They fear...
Last week three of Nixon's appointees (Chief Justice Warren Burger, Lewis Powell and William Rehnquist) helped overturn those lower-court decisions. Wrote Powell for the majority: "Because of the singular importance of the President's duties, diversion of his energies by concern with private lawsuits would raise...