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...expecting too much to get clear and ringing answers,'' says Harvard Law School Professor Laurence Tribe. ''Yes, this court is un even and divided; it is feeling its way. But to do otherwise would undermine the credibility of the institution.'' If the lib eral Warren Court has not become the conservative Burger Court, if the Nixon appointees have failed to march in lock step, it should come as no surprise. It is merely a reflection of the integrity, and In deed sensitivity to U.S. society at large, of the Supreme Court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Inside the High Court | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...grinning dunce") and women's lib ("the most successful pestilence since Prohibition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: 50 Faces for America's Future | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

...attracted to a handsome woman full of culture babble. Alas, he must bide his time until his best friend, who just happens to be married, breaks off his relationship with her. One day he does. She takes her dismissal with a chilling display of post-lib schizophrenia: "I'm beautiful, I'm young, I'm highly intelligent, I've got everything going for me except I'm all f-??up . . . I could go to bed with the entire M.I.T. faculty. Shit! Now I lost my contact lens." The sentence runs together like that because her completely contradictory sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Woody Allen Comes of Age | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

...raunchiest sex scenes in recent fiction, but it is all for nothing. She has misjudged who really has control of the magazine. Neil is on his way out, and Helene, his foul-mouthed assistant, is on her way in, exhaling the dragon's breath of women's lib...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rules of the Game | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

...biggest, says a German women's group, who named him M.C. of the Month for his new book, an epic about a sexist talking fish. During a visit to Atlanta, where he read passages from The Flounder, Grass naturally had some talking to do. "The women's lib movement," he said, "has a lot of women who want to use power like men. We have enough stupid men who use power." Grass also had some criticisms about American writers, who, he claims, have not confronted the Viet Nam War. Says Grass: "If you don't face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 13, 1978 | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

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