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...outraged," protested Nicol Burton of the National Organization for Women. "The Supreme Court has legalized sex discrimination," agreed Susan Ross of the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation. The court's decision does not rule out new legislation on the issue, however, and feminist leaders now plan to lobby for action from Congress. A number of them added another observation-that the Supreme Court could use a good woman on the bench...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: No Pay for Pregnancy | 12/20/1976 | See Source »

...dingy foyer of the Utah State Prison, Gilmore's aunt, Ida Damico, and her daughter, Brenda Nicol, maintain a sort of vigil. They say, though, that if they had been on Gilmore's jury, they would have voted to convict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Much Ado About Gary | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

...Freud's probing into the secret of Holme's personality to determine the subconscious source of his addiction give us mystery on top of mystery. It is a powerful proposition for a film. Add to it a star-studded cast that includes Laurence Olivier, Vanessa Redgrave, Alan Arkin, Nicol Williamson and Joel Grey, to name a few, and how can you lose...

Author: By Margot A. Patterson, | Title: The 93 Per Cent Problem | 12/11/1976 | See Source »

...perception of him as a titanic power of evil. Alan Arkin portrays a surprisingly endearing and benign Sigmund Freud with none of the brooding, neurotic quality one might expect. Arkin's Freud is all kindliness and sanity. Vanessa Redgrave is an appropriately haunting and romantic Lola Devereaux and Nicol Williamson makes a fine Sherlock Holmes, the civilized British gentleman with a passion for fair play at all times. Even in his berserk moments, he remains the aristocratic eccentric. Though gifted with a passion for precision, he is still the ultimate amateur...

Author: By Margot A. Patterson, | Title: The 93 Per Cent Problem | 12/11/1976 | See Source »

Something is much amiss here, and Sherlock Holmes should be just the man to put it right. Unfortunately, Holmes may be on hand in The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, but he is not fully present. He appears quite prominently-gamely played by Nicol Williamson-but the spirit of the master sleuth is nowhere to be found. Instead of pursuing his customary invigorating adventures, Holmes becomes enmeshed in a slack, sorry matter involving anti-Semites, a pasha, an abducted actress, a train race and Dr. Sigmund Freud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Elementary Work | 11/1/1976 | See Source »

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