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Most tiresome repetition of a single gag: BRIDGET LOVES BERNIE...
...Holiday (1953), the first, still seems the best, the most genuinely poignant and inventively funny. Further installments - Mon Oncle (1958) and Playtime (1967), photo graphed in 70 mm. and yet to be released in the U.S. - have grown progressively more precious. Often the complexity of a Tati gag outweighs the punch line. In Traffic, it overwhelms it. Ingenuity, not wit, is the real point of the exercise, and laughter is strangled by mechanics...
...outcome of specific cases. For ten years this civil restriction has throttled coverage of a poignant and important story: the long legal fight, still proceeding in the courts, over damages to be paid to those crippled by the drug thalidomide. The London Sunday Times has now torn apart the gag rule, setting up a classic court v. press conflict...
Seven months later, however, when Farr left the Herald-Examiner for a public relations job, the persistent judge subpoenaed him, claiming that he had not only lost the protection of Section 1070 but that he was also an accessory to a violation of the court's gag order. Although Farr submitted the names of six attorneys and said that his sources were among them (under oath all denied involvement), Judge Older ordered him jailed until he specified his informants. In December 1971, Section 1070 was amended to shield former newsmen from contempt citations, but that same month, in upholding...
...Twin Falls, Idaho, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew attended a cocktail party for the men he has often used as foils: the reporters who cover him. Relaxed, smiling and exchanging wisecracks, he accepted the gag gift of a policeman's whistle from newsmen. That night, as he was heckled at the College of Southern Idaho, Agnew suddenly blew a piercing blast with his new toy and shouted: "Wrong!" The startled audience gasped, then broke into loud applause...