Word: mad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reviewers across the country have the New York reviews to guide them." And so it bombed. Altman, furious that the promised New York premiere had been denied his film, managed to get it released again in the fall with a new ad campaign featuring ironic posters by a former Mad magazine artist. It did better, but still didn't pull the audience Altman knew it could. The first billing, as a hard-boiled detective flick, was completely misleading, but the public didn't seem to understand the light spoof Altman was actually trying to achieve, which the second-release publicity...
...opening of the New England chapter of the National Association for Justice, which he founded in 1972 on his release from federal jail. Its aim: to help cons battle civil rights and legal problems. Tackling questions from the floor, Law-and-Order Convert Hoffa advocated the death penalty for "mad dog" killers and kidnapers. But he came out against giving immunity to "stool pigeons" because that, in his view, is unfair to the people on whom they inform. "The result," said Jimmy gravely, "is not a trial of justice but a trial of injustice...
...Detroit in what he likes to call "upper-lower-class circumstances." When he was ten, Stevie was picked up by Motown after a routine audition and subsequently enrolled at the Michigan School for the Blind, where classes were fitted into his career schedule. It would have been a mad life for any child. Stevie spent years on tour with the Motown Revue. Other performers would joke about not wanting to sleep in the hotel room next to his because he would keep them awake bumping into the walls. That used to break Stevie up, because he rarely bumped into anything...
...consumer. The run on commodities, however, has hurt everybody. Investors seeking tangible value have speculated wildly in wheat, sugar, potatoes, copper and lumber, helping to set off a mad spiral in the prices of these and other basic raw materials. A Reuters index of 17 commodity prices has zoomed from 509 in the fall of 1971 to 1,422 in March (see chart page...
...demand more purity than that is wholly unappealing. At that point, you're not asking for a fair trial, but no trial at all." Which is just what some Watergate defendants seem to be asking for, believes Berkeley Criminal Law Professor Sanford Kadish, and "that makes me mad...