Word: melvin
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Premier then threatened the homeowners with legal action if they did not pay a $300 fee. In response, a group of about 1,200 of the alleged pirates hired the firm of Melvin Belli, the famed attorney whose clients have included Errol Flynn, Mae West and Jack Ruby, to sue the company for invasion of privacy and extortion. Last week Premier filed its own suit against 6,902 people for intercepting its programs. The cases could set precedents for future legal duels between pay-TV companies and air pirates...
...with what enthusiasm, with what generosity she invited the human race to share her faith! This may be what Gregory Bateson meant when he predicted that in the years ahead people will recognize Margaret Mead's contribution as being enormous-without being able to say quite why. -By Melvin Maddocks...
...Melvin Maddocks...
...wife of Allan Gotlieb, Canadian Ambassador to the U.S., and her official residence, she quips, "is something between a private home and a public drinking place." The energetic and outspoken author (two novels plus travel and humor works) peoples her pieces with a lively cast of capital types. Melvin Thistle Jr. from State always arrives late; the elderly Baron Spitte switches place cards if he is positioned below the salt, and bitchy Partygoer Popsie Tribble typically advises, "Remember, you're sitting next to a job, not a person." Gotlieb's columns, in the form of letters...
James Agee has become a minor cult, as well he should. But he should not be considered one of those classic romantic failures so adored by adolescents and academics. As much as most artists, he achieved what he was capable of, and it was enough. -By Melvin Maddocks...