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Such Good Friends has something to do with the racy Lois Gould bestseller about a woman (Dyan Cannon) whose husband (Laurence Luckinbill) enters the hospital for a routine operation and rapidly develops severe complications. Hunting around in the desk drawer for the medical insurance, the wife discovers a little black book in which Hubby has recorded his numerous infidelities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: D.O.A. | 1/10/1972 | See Source »

...hand flutter like birds. I don't want to give you the picture if you don't like it. You will either tear it up or bury it in a drawer. You think it makes you look bad, Awkward...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: Picture Exchange | 12/11/1971 | See Source »

Despite this record, there was some hope that the impetus of last year's comparatively fresh All in the Family, and the influx of top-drawer stars might lift the current season above the midden of the past. In fact, the networks' ten new comedy series-though their caricatures are slightly less grotesque-have sunk into the old predictability and sentimentality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The New Season: II | 10/4/1971 | See Source »

...Bill Raymond, 12, of Sacramento, Calif., snooped around his father's bedroom and found a leafy substance in a dresser drawer. The boy shared his discovery with a deputy sheriff who told the youth that it was marijuana. Later, while another sheriff's man waited in a nearby car, the youth again searched the bedroom and came up with more pot. The state charged Bill's father, Charles Raymond, with possession of marijuana. Despite defense protests that the evidence was inadmissible because it had been illegally obtained, a superior court judge ruled for the prosecution. Wrong, said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Decisions | 9/20/1971 | See Source »

Justice is sometimes served in mysterious ways. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun told a commencement day audience at Hamline University last week that when he took his place on that exalted bench, he was amazed to find that each Justice had a box of cough drops in a drawer in front of him. "I don't know why," said Blackmun, "because we don't say much." In Blackmun's box was a single cough drop. "It tasted like it had been there since 1902. Then I didn't know what to do with the empty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 7, 1971 | 6/7/1971 | See Source »

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