Word: following
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...number of psychological problems have also been associated with marijuana use. The most common is described as "acute panic anxiety reaction." It is seen most frequently in inexperienced users,, but can also follow an unexpectedly high dose. Transient feelings of mild paranoia are fairly common in users, especially those who are anxious about the experience to start with...
Every Which Way goes in every which direction to no particular avail. It is nearly impossible to sit through. Chase scenes, barroom brawls and barehanded boxing matches follow in dizzying succession, but the movie rarely lurches forward. Director James Fargo (Caravans) seems to delight in disorienting the audience: it is a major chore to figure out who is punching whom, not to mention why. For punctuation, there are running gags. Ruth Gordon pops up, without warning or justification, to do her foul-mouthed-old-lady routine; the Gray Panthers would be well advised to have an injunction slapped...
...committee has other choices, and most of them seem to follow the traditional pattern. Last year saloon-keeper and comic Rodney Dangerfield spoke at Class Day, and this year's committee has a slew of comedians and other entertainment figures in mind if first choice Trudeau--a Yalie--declines to show...
...says that he can still beat the younger guys, and I'm trying to keep mine because I don't want the older man to beat me. That's how he motivates, by doing, not by talking. He sets an example for all of us to follow...
...institution." The judge's claim of something like divine right worked: last March, the Supreme Court ruled, 5 to 3, that a judge could act maliciously, exceed his authority and even commit "grave procedural errors" and still be immune to personal-damage suits. Judges must be free to follow their own convictions, said the court, though Justice Potter Stewart dissented: "A judge is not free, like a loose cannon, to inflict indiscriminate damage...