Word: jill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from their play of the same name, sounds like a third-grade primer on Constitutional Law, replete with metaphors for an eight-year-old. "You can't turn the law into a straightjacket," feisty liberal Justice Dan Snow (Walter Matthau) tells arch-conservative bench-mate Ruth Loomis (Jill Clayburgh). "It must be a suit of clothes you can move around in." With this profound thought as a guideline, the movie dashes madly from issue to issue, like a tourist with an hour to spend on all of the national monuments. But the camera never wanders too far from Matthau...
...does, she may decide to withdraw her name from consideration as the first female appointee to the Supreme Court. One could scarcely blame her, so dismal does this fantasy-based on a hit play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee-make life on the big bench seem. Jill Clayburgh plays the perky, conservative new lady in chambers; Walter Matthau is the bearish liberal Justice with whom she has a tastefully tentative comedy-romance that turns out to be neither very comic nor very romantic. Mostly they argue about things like pornography and corporate responsibility. These discussions are conducted...
...hire women; the secretaries might resent it," as one informed Orinda Evans, 38, now a federal district judge in Georgia, as recently as 1968. In addition, women no longer restrict themselves to the genteel specializations of real estate and probate law, as they did when former Watergate Prosecutor Jill Wine Banks finished Columbia Law School...
...heroes carom off two patrolmen dubbed "street monsters" for their appetite for violence; a Marine posing for gay sculptors; the Ferret and the Weasel, a pair of frenzied narcs; a Vietnamese assassin; Tuna Can Tommy, a flasher with a phenomenal physique; and a massage-parlor hostess called Jackin Jill...
...Care, Bedger 49.79 2. Dave Bottom, Welnut Cresk 50.12 Women's 100 breast 1. Tracy Caulkins, Nashville 1:01.13 2. Kim Rhodenbaugh, Pepel Marline 1:02:60 Men's 100 breast 1. Steven Lundquist, Dallas-Dr. Pepper 83.83 2. Bill Barrett, Mission Visjo 54.17 Women's 100 butterfly 1. Jill Sternel, Longhom 52.99 2. Mary T. Maugher, 60.00 Men's 100 butterfly 1. Mett Gribble, Hurricane 47.82 2. Brad Herring, Mission Visjo 48.41 Women's 400 medley relay 1. Nashville 3:43.69 Men's 400 medley relay 1. Mission Visjo...