Word: jersey
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...Most Democratic candidates are managing to keep voters from connecting them with the faltering President. In New Jersey, for instance, Senate Nominee Bill Bradley has been describing Carter as "well intentioned but ineffective." Says a New York Democratic operative: "Fortunately for us, I don't think Carter's problems are transferable to other Democratic candidates at either state or congressional levels...
When New York Times Reporter Myron Farber, 40, was tossed into a New Jersey jail two and a half weeks ago for refusing to give his notes to a trial judge, the issue seemed reasonably clear-cut. As of last week, it proved to be anything...
From the start, the case had the ingredients of a Hollywood whodunit. But when the defense, claiming a frame-up, demanded to see the reporter's notes, the Doctor X trial was transformed into a clash of constitutional principles as well. Citing the First Amendment and a New Jersey "shield law" giving a reporter the privilege of refusing to disclose confidential sources, Farber and the Times refused to turn over anything. The result: a head-on collision between the First and Sixth Amendments, between the constitutional claims of free press and fair trial...
...facts of Perkins' life are plain to the point of austerity. The offspring of two old New England families, Perkins had a genteel suburban childhood in New Jersey, spent four years at Harvard, tried newspaper reporting for a while and then joined Scribner's. He married and fathered five daughters. His eccentricities were notable chiefly because of their rarity. He liked to wear a hat in the office, pulled down so that his ears stuck forward. He doodled pictures that were ostensibly of Napoleon; around the prominent eyes and the high-bridged nose, they looked like self-portraits...
...when Lee Friedlander, a deceptively casual imagemaker, positions his eyeline on an ordinary suburban street to get a flowering shrub directly behind a lamppost, so that the street light seems to be emitting great sprays of blossom in broad daylight. In one way, Elliott Erwitt's New Jersey, 1953, is a most plainly observed view by a roadside: sky, bushes, bus stop. But the cannon muzzle poking over the top of the bushes removes it to another tract of the imagination. For a moment the areas "out there" and "in here" fuse in an image of brilliantly calculated mystery...