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Almost everyone agrees, though, that challenge matches are the only fair wayfor coach Dave Fish to settle the squad's lineup. As Bunin said, "I hate 'em, but I think you have to have some of them...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Sweating It Out at Palmer Dixon | 3/24/1977 | See Source »

...since moved from delivering the finely honed barbs of the nation's greatest "ridiculer" of Presidents to actually portraying Presidents themselves. He snared an Oscar nomination for a representation of Harry S. Truman that made its way successfully from stage to screen to tube under the fiery title Give 'Em Hell, Harry...

Author: By Steven Schorr, | Title: Smooth Sail for a Rough Rider | 3/19/1977 | See Source »

...outside-with some justification, since more than 40% have been harassed by older kids or adults while playing. Children addicted to television (those who watch four or more hours daily) are twice as likely to be fearful; nearly 25% of all the children are frightened by TV "shoot 'em ups" and other violent programs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Polling the Children | 3/14/1977 | See Source »

Haynes said yesterday that Wilson and other academics have helped a "lock-em-up mentality" in public opinion. He called the policies Wilson tends to favor "reactionary and conservative...

Author: By Susand D. Chira, | Title: Phillips Brooks House Group Opposes Prison Construction | 3/9/1977 | See Source »

...plan is a patchwork of medieval chivalry, Confederate rhetoric and shoot-'em-up justice. He will go away with the girl in the next room - a patient in the asylum who has been gang-raped into insensibility. In Lancelot's view, this outrage has purified her of every indulgence he hates in the modern world. Together they will be the new Adam and Eve, dedicated to "a stern code, a gentleness toward women and an intolerance of swinishness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Questing After An Unholy Grail | 3/7/1977 | See Source »

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