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...people of Illinois have been treated in recent weeks to the spectacle of their state lawmakers engaging in their annual rite of spring: making "goddamn fools" of themselves, in the apt words of one representative, as they rush to complete the legislative agenda before the adjournment scheduled for June 30. Since some 4,500 measures had been introduced, legislators were forced to meet nights and weekends. As tempers flared, medics outside the chambers tested blood pressure, and sent two people to the hospital. One representative introduced a motion to permit members time each day for conjugal visits, either with their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Rush to Judgment | 6/16/1975 | See Source »

...double, maybe triple its gross profits in the months following the show. A Best Actor can ask for a half-million dollars plus percentage of the profits in his next movie. A Best Supporting Actor jack nicholson can become Jack Nicholson. A cliche maybe, but you can feel the goddamn tension. It's like you have Scoop, Mo, Hubert, Ed and Lloyd, and one of them is going to get it on television in an envelope, instead of watching the action in the privacy of a hotel suite. Do you think any of them wouldn't lose his bowels...

Author: By Peter Kaplan, | Title: The Envelope, Please | 4/10/1975 | See Source »

...been too sick to come to the phone, "Shut up and show the goddamn movie!" they yelled, perhaps in frustration at Moe's illness. It seemed paradoxical considering that they'd obviously showed up for the carnival of it all, and a mere screening would have been no more than a mellow and healthily rowdy blast. The Stooges all alone couldn't have aroused anything but good nature...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: A Night With The Stooges | 3/20/1975 | See Source »

Whhhhaaaack! "The trouble with the tour today (Whhhhaaaack!) is that there's just too many goddamn (Whhhhaaaack!) kids out here who cannot play. They come out of college (Whhhhaaaack!) and because they can shoot 70 on a golf course, they think they can play. (Whhhhaaaack!) Hell, half of 'em can't beat Tom Thumb with a gun. (Whhhhaaaack! Whhhhaaaack!) We got about about a hundred of those." Whhhhaaaack! Whhhhaaaack! Whhhhaaaack...

Author: By Harry HURT Iii, | Title: The Real Victor Was a Cool Ole Killer | 8/20/1974 | See Source »

...dubious relevance." This incredible assertion was echoed by St. Clair. It contains this comment by the President on March 22,1973: "John Dean . . . put the fires out, almost got the damn thing nailed down till past the election and so forth. We all know what it is. Embarrassing goddamn thing the way it went, and so forth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Case of the Doctored Transcripts | 7/22/1974 | See Source »

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