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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some 100 km (62 miles), through Arkansas and northwestern Tennessee. There the fault system veers off past New Madrid and probably continues into southern Illinois. In all, the scientists count about half a dozen associated faults, although their data are still sketchy. Says St. Louis University Geophysicist Sean-Thomas Morrissey: "You can't go out and stick your finger in the fault like in California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Middle America's Fault | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

Alas, Fassbinder is doing more than mere fooling around. Increasingly, he seems to be the '70s heir to such past camp masters as the '50s Hollywood director Douglas Sirk (Magnificent Obsession) and the '60s Warhol disciple Paul Morrissey (Flesh). But unlike his predecessors, Fassbinder does not recognize the limits of the form. Camp is fine for movies that want to trade exclusively in offbeat humor and florid emotions. In Maria Braun, Fassbinder makes the serious mistake of try ing to convey ideas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: High Camp | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

...been the traditional way to fill the federal bench. Presidents appoint federal judges, but since Senators can blackball any candidate from their home state, they have the real power of appointment. Sheer embarrassment is about the only check. When Senator Ted Kennedy tried to nominate Family Retainer Francis X. Morrissey for a federal judgeship in 1965, other lawyers began joking that Morrissey was boning up for the job by reading the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, the rough equivalent of preparing for surgery by looking at Gray's Anatomy. Kennedy eventually withdrew Morrissey's name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judging the Judges | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

...Please, no more letters to honor that scoundrel and rogue who frequently exhorted Boston voters to 'Vote early and often,' " replied Jean Rogers, languishing in Provincetown. Curley was no "scoundrel and rogue," sniped George Morrissey from Newton. And furthermore, "The true exhortation was 'Vote often and early for James Michael Curley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Boston: Confronting a Curley $65,000 Question | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

Dariel Young 1 0-0 2; Lindy Moorcroft 2 0-1 2; Trish Morrissey 1 2-2 4; Toni Lagos 1 2-3 4; Janice Kardo 3 0-0 6; Jennifer Rubin 1 1-1 3; Trish Wartz 5 4-6 14; Brown...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Women Hoopsters Crush Brown, 68-41 | 2/22/1979 | See Source »

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