Word: newman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Newman A. Flanagan, the Suffolk County assistant district attorney who successfully prosecuted Dr. Kenneth C. Edelin for manslaughter, said this week that he will also argue the commonwealth's case in the fetal experimentation indictments of four Boston City Hospital researchers...
...Paul Newman grabs hold of a young girl just as the stairway she is standing on springs open and collapses away into infinity; a firefighter hangs on to the shell of an elevator as a helicopter lowers it ninety stories. One is perfectly helpless in the grasp of scenes like these...
...that what was wrong with the Tower was its poor construction, not its design. Yet we are asked to see the charred hulk of the Tower as a symbol of something more. "Maybe we should just leave it standing like it is," says a dejected Paul Newman, "as a monument to all the bullshit in the world...
LYON SAYS HE CAN'T work within traditional formulas and defends the individuality of his music passionately. "We simply so what we do without consideration of what others have done," he said testily in reply to a suggestion that his songs sounded something like Randy Newman's. "In 1970 it was Elton John, in '71 Laura Nyro. And the last few years Randy Newman. And the only thing we have in common is that we all sing and play the piano." Lyon says his music has been influenced very little by white rock 'n' roll except for The Beatles...
...Look at the derision and laughter in the Democratic Party when a Paul Newman or a Marlo Thomas decides to make a political statement," he says. "It's as if a political statement by someone in the arts is bogus or without intellectual foundation. If I leave Harvard and decide I want to be a musician, suddenly any political ideas I have will be suspect. People will see me as a musician, not someone who's studied government at Harvard...