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...image as the ruthless lover. Behind his sophisticated sadism there was often the suggestion of a dark past and a doomed future, shrouding such troubled protagonists as the Irish fugitive in Odd Man Out (1946), Rommel in The Desert Fox (1951) and The Desert Rats (1953), and the drunken Norman Maine in A Star Is Born (1954). As his matinee-idol features aged, his performances became comically macabre: his Humbert Humbert in Lolita (1962) is a tour de force of nympholeptic longing. In his last decade, Mason lived as a Swiss squire, occasionally playing featured roles in international films...
Vanessa, we learn, has more in mind than just winning PS. It seems the boy's rakish father, a handsome, drunken gold digger who's quite the ladies' man, had an affair with Vanessa years ago. By getting his son, she hopes to lure him back. But Logan, hardly the fatherly type, breezes into town only long enough to tie one on and perhaps sign a new set of papers, beseeched by both sisters for sole guardianship rights...
Culture Clash. Touches of Little Italy and Chinatown. The Beat-era City Lights Bookshop, where Jack Kerouac gave drunken poetry readings, and the Purple Onion, the takeoff nightspot for Phyllis Diller and the Kingston Trio. Iced Campari among jet-setters at Enrico's Sidewalk Cafe, and hamburgers among Oriental teen-agers at Clown Alley. White-shod tourists and Mohawked punks. Saints and sinners bathed in the garish glow of strip joints. This is the cultural clashpoint known as North Beach. Here, on a three-block stretch of Broadway, the barkers compete hoarsely for the business of the leery...
...decision involving a special group, the court held, 5 to 4, that illegal aliens are not entitled to the protection of the exclusionary rule in civil deportation hearings because such a rule would unduly "burden" the administration of immigration laws. And in an exclusionary-rule case involving a suspected drunken driver in Ohio, the court held, 8 to 1, that the Miranda warnings on the right to remain silent and the right to counsel need not be given to motorists stopped routinely by police; those warnings must be given, the Justices added, if the driver is placed in custody...
Dissenting Justice Marie Garibaldi said that it could open the door to "speculative and subjective" legal judgments. But Chief Justice Robert N. Wilentz wrote that society has now decided it must "do whatever is required ... to stop the senseless loss inflicted by drunken drivers." Washington seems to agree. Last week Congress approved and sent to the President a bill that will cut federal highway funds for states that do not adopt a minimum drinking...