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...Writer. Mondale delivered his speeches with ease and with humor that was often directed at himself. He lacks a good gag writer, but got off a few zingers of his own. Sample: "President Ford says he wants more national parks. Well, I've checked his record, and the only park he has supported is the President of South Korea." Throughout the week, Mondale struggled to blend the liberalism that he learned at Hubert Humphrey's knee with Carter's politics of moral leadership. At times Mondale seemed to forget that inflation now comes first in Carter...
...equally to managing his affairs profitably and to seeing that his egocentric whims do not cut too deeply into those profits. As usual in Altman's films, the minor characters are hilariously venal, conning themselves relentlessly, the better to con the public. The film's best running gag has Geraldine Chaplin as sharpshooting Annie Oakley, sniping closer, ever closer to Frank Butler, her husband, who must hold her targets steady while fighting against growing fear as she keeps testing the limits of her possibly lethal talent. Altman understates this joke, as he does literally hundreds of others, with...
Simants was ultimately sentenced to death, but several news organizations pressed their appeal because gag orders have been proliferating. Last week, in a surprisingly firm 9-0 decision, the Supreme Court nearly outlawed them...
Chief Justice Warren Burger declared that the court was not imposing an "absolute prohibition" on gag rules, but he added that "the barriers to prior restraint remain high." In the Nebraska case, he ruled, "this prohibition regarding 'implicative' information is too vague and too broad." Moreover, some of the banned information had been revealed in a public hearing and "what transpired there could not be subject to prior restraint" under any circumstances.* Where the banned information is not on the public record, however, Burger refused to "rule out the possibility [that an extraordinary] threat to fair trial rights...
...pointed out that there were other ways of protecting a defendant's Sixth Amendment rights-including moving or delaying the trial, careful questioning of potential jurors, sequestering impaneled jurors and ordering prosecutors, police and court officials not to talk to the press. But for trial judges tempted to gag the press directly, the message seems clear. Nebraska Judge Hugh Stuart still felt that his gag order had been "appropriate," but he also said, "I must have erred since I was reversed...