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...companies are naturally unhappy about once again being cast in the role of the heavy. Mobil Oil lawyers have met privately with MGM officials to object. Says a Mobil spokesman: "This is not even a good piece of fiction." The clear winner from the film is Marlon Brando, who received a reported $250,000 a day for ten days' work. That is a real formula for making money...
...trying for a stiffer sentence, did the Government run afoul of the Fifth Amendment's guarantee that no one will "be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb"? No, said Blackmun. He maintained that the object of the double-jeopardy clause was to spare a successful defendant the "ordeal" of successive trials. A judge's imposition of sentence, wrote Blackmun, lacks the "finality" of an acquittal, and thus may be altered...
...suspension had "a chilling effect" in Whitman Hall, where she was living that year, she says: "Twelve or fifteen people in my dorm got letters of warning; I got thrown out. So I was an object lesson to them. It was saying to all the other people, if you take the next step, this is what will happen...
...allows would-be conglomerate makers to wheel and deal their way to paper empires. In Profit and Loss ($15) players trade art, antiques, real estate and stocks. Capitalism itself is put to the test in Class Struggle ($12), in which players rep resent different classes in society and the object of the game is to win the revolution...
Chicago announced the reason for this in her autobiography, Through the Flower, published in 1975, the year after she began The Dinner Party. "To be a woman is to be an object of contempt, and the vagina, stamp of femaleness, is despised," she wrote. "The woman artist, seeing herself as loathed, takes the very mark of her otherness and by asserting it as the hallmark of her iconography, establishes a vehicle by which to state the beauty and truth of her identity." The aim of this jargon-sodden Femspeak is to set up a myth of women artists...