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...show is still furiously funny, not because the setting is Hollywood but be cause the subjects are avarice, folly and desire, three aspects of human nature that make the whole world kin. The two protagonists, Robert Law (Lenny Baker) and J. Carlyle Benson (Charles Kimbrough), are nuthouse intellectuals-that is to say, screenwriters. Playwrights Bella and Sam Spewack modeled them on the famed '20s collaborators Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. Their problem is to put together a film vehicle for a narcissistic cowboy star whose IQ is perceptibly lower than that of his horse...
...state's interest in preserving life "weakens and the individual's right to privacy grows as the degree of bodily invasion increases and the prognosis dims." The chief justice added that if a patient cannot exercise his or her rights, then a guardian-usually the next of kin-may do so. The court thus entrusted her father, Joseph Quinlan, with Karen's right to die, and he may turn to other doctors or hospitals if Karen's present medical caretakers continue to refuse to disconnect the respirator...
...crabs and its watermen's way of life are endangered species. Warner does not attempt to change the situation by preaching. His text performs a far better service. In its unsentimental way, it evokes Shakespeare's phrase: "One touch of nature makes the whole world kin." Callinectes sapidus and Homo sapiens may seem a world apart. Beautiful Swimmers shows how minuscule that world is-and how interrelated its in habitants have become...
Last week there were fresh accusations, this time by Quebec Superior Court Justice Kenneth Mackay (no kin to M.P. Mackay). In a letter to Justice Minister Ronald Basford, Justice Mackay charged that two present Cabinet ministers had used "unwarranted attempts to interfere with the judicial process." The two-Health and Welfare Minister Lalonde and Minister of Science and Public Works C.M. Drury-allegedly got in touch with Mackay or his colleagues in cases dating back to 1969, asking for delays in trials and making other unspecified requests...
...urged members of the party's youth branch to limit their families to two children, to educate at least one illiterate person and to plant one tree every year. Avoid identification with the political left or right, declared Sanjay, and follow the credo of Mahatma Gandhi (no kin to the Prime Minister) to help "the poorest of the poor and the weakest of the weak...