Word: lawfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Massachusetts law originally prescribed death by hanging or pressing for anyone who "willfully blasphemes the holy name of God." Meserve said, but added the sentence was long ago modified to a jail term. The current maximum penalty is a $300 line and a one-year jail sentence...
...actually, as millions of viewers knew, things were perfectly normal at the Southfork Ranch: J.R., the eldest son, was in Washington with his newest mistress, and J.R.'s wife, Sue Ellen, was bedding down with her sister-in-law's brother. In short, just an ordinary night...
...production is so slick that it scarcely matters that some of the acting is not. When they think about it, the two daughters-in-law practice their accents, droppin' g's like sure-'nuff Texans. When they do something besides thinking, like parading around the swimming pool, they sound as if the only Texans they know are those who shop on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills. Bel Geddes does not even attempt an accent, but she is so good at everything else that no one notices. Lucky Larry Hagman, who grew up in Texas, sounds just right...
Granted, show business folk have every right to politick. And politicians are entitled to use every self-serving gimmick that the law allows. Still, given the American tendency to worship stars, one may wonder whether eventually show business might be too casually accepted as an appropriate training ground for political leadership. The question is pertinent even if California's election of Actor George Murphy as a U.S. Senator is shrugged off as a typical West Coast aberration...
...concerts by celebrated musical performers. Singer Linda Ronstadt was producing bucks for Governor Jerry Brown long before the two of them had become a hot gossip-column item. The Allman Brothers and Johnny Cash similarly helped out Jimmy Carter. This fund-raising mode was facilitated by a financing law that allowed concert receipts to be considered as donations not of the performers but of ticket-buying members of the audience. There will be more political concerts though the law has been tightened to curtail the federal matching money that can be awarded...