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...focus of plea bargaining should not be on "spinning the revolving doors of the courthouse." It should be on "the defendant's rehabilitation or the public's protection." Says Chicago Law School Professor Franklin Zimring: "Because of plea bargaining, I guess we can say, 'Gee, the trains run on time.' But do we like where they're going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Is Plea Bargaining a Cop-Out? | 8/28/1978 | See Source »

...contemplate how little imagination has gone into this effort. The rudimentary plot is set forth in a gee-whiz script that stops at nothing, including the invocation of prayers, in its pursuit of the cornball. The obligatory beach-riot scene is a crude recapitulation of the one staged by Spielberg three years ago. Instead of presenting fleshed-out characters (and actors like Robert Shaw and Richard Dreyfuss to play them), Jaws 2 is largely populated by nubile teenagers who appear to be graduates of the Mickey Mouse Club of Dramatic Arts. When these kids meet their unsavory fates, one feels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Overbite | 6/19/1978 | See Source »

Unlike most casinos, where the dealers and croupiers preside with a practiced haughtiness, those handling the tables in this huge new gaming room looked like clean-cut students on summer vacation and were prone to say such things as "Gee, I'm sorry you lost." The losers, too, were more casual than the average out-of-luck gambler. All they were risking so boldly at craps, roulette, baccarat and blackjack was play money-$250,000 of it-provided by the casino for a test run in preparation for the scheduled opening this weekend of the Resorts International Casino...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Betting on the Boardwalk | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

...Gee, it sounds like it should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 15, 1978 | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

...most common reactions from people experiencing their first taste of modern art is, "Gee, I could have done that." They see a few bright-colored geometric shapes scattered seemingly randomly on a canvas, or splotches of paint dribbled across it, and they assume that all they need is some paint and the nerve to tack high price tags on to their accidents in order to be an artist...

Author: By Amy B. Mcintosh, | Title: Profundity or Paint Rags? | 5/4/1978 | See Source »

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