Word: newmans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Newman A. Flanagan, assistant district attorney in Suffolk County, and William P. Homans Jr. '41, Edelin's attorney, have promised to bring medical authorities from across the nation to testify before Judge James B. McGuire's superior criminal court...
This additional expense resulted in only marginally better taste. To be sure, the special effects are more persuasive than those of the other two films. Steve McQueen and Paul Newman bring authoritative dash to their work as, respectively, the fire captain and the architect who combine their charisma to minimize loss of life when the world's tallest building goes up in flames. Faye Dunaway provides the film's highest moments of suspense by nearly falling out of the damnedest dress you ever saw on several occasions. But looked at from an accountant's point of view...
...Earthquake, is that the scriptwriters feel obligated to fritter away time on people's banal problems. Bad marriages and love affairs naturally come apart, good ones grow better as the flames leap higher. Obvious cheaters and other meanies (the fire started because Builder Holden skimped on Architect Newman's safety specifications) get their comeuppance, while individuals of quiet integrity win a chance to prove their virtue...
...film, after the last flame has been doused, Paul Newman surveys the ruined hulk of his skyscraper. He suggests allowing it to stand as "a monument to all the bullshit" of our age. Probably The Towering Inferno should be placed on permanent exhibition at the Smithsonian for the same reason...
...Leah Newman, the doctors civil liberties groups, and all who advocate medical services for teen-agers where "sex is concerned, without involving the parents," if they will keep the parents uninvolved when it comes to billing for these services and paying for contraceptives? Will they care for these kids in their homes while the kid is getting over VD, the abortion and/or related trauma...