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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Haley (James Earl Jones) interviews him for Playboy, Brando devilishly sprays his office with disinfectant and sings racist jingles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: A Super Sequel to Haley's Comet | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

PURGATORY IS THE overriding subject of Narratives, Earl Kim's new musical adaptation of various excerpts from Samuel Beckett's work. In seven skits Kim effectively captures the essence of Beckett's purgatory-a world founded on the premise of an irreducible absurdity-one in which the realms of the shadow and substance constantly collide,interweave and fall apart. In this world characters are racked by doubt and tormented by a nightmarish past which they cannot escape or hope to understand. Purgatory is not a way-station between heaven and hell in Kim's view, it is the Universe itself...

Author: By Ken Wise, | Title: Talking Instruments | 2/13/1979 | See Source »

...muscle to pry the Stanley Cup away from the Canadiens. With a goaltender's fine appreciation of the scorer's art, the Islanders' Glenn Resch sums up his teammates: "You couldn't draft a bigger, stronger left wing than Gillies. Trottier always slips through like Earl Campbell. Bossy can put the puck in the net on every good chance. He and Trottier have that psychic thing between them that a great line has to have. The ingredients are here. If we don't win, we've run out of excuses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hockey's Power Players | 2/5/1979 | See Source »

While listening to his brethren's legalistic arguments at Supreme Court conferences during the '60s, the late Chief Justice Earl Warren would impatiently interject, "Yes, yes,'yes. But is it right? Is it good?" His stance remains at once noble and unsettling. Says Stanford Law Professor Gerald Gunther: "Part of the price of their remarkable independence, tenure, reverence, is that judges are under a special obligation to justify their opinions, even if they got there by their guts originally." Judges are supposed to look for the intent of lawmakers, heed precedent, and hesitate to read their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Have the Judges Done Too Much? | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

...Earl Monroe (Three, one with the Bullets, two with the Knicks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sports Cube First Annual Basketball Mid-Year | 1/19/1979 | See Source »

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