Word: pads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tooling along 1-65 in Alabama, headed for Montgomery, the driver of the green '68 Volkswagen checked the road in front of him, then glanced at the papers in his lap and occasionally leaned over to scribble on a yellow legal pad. After 2½ hours on the road, Lawyer Morris Dees, 37, somehow arrived safely at his office. By then he had finished going over the transcript of Johnny Harris' trial...
Reyes was sitting at his desk, scribbling away on a yellow legal pad, when he found himself writing a sentence that said, in effect, "And now we come to the important aspects of this issue." But what came next? Reyes thought for a moment. What were the important aspects of his thesis? He wasn't sure...
...usual kind of rockers' bash. On Sept. 23, 1974, after the Scottish group Average White Band's show at the Troubadour, Entrepreneur Ken Moss, 31, asked the lads back to his Hollywood Hills pad. Camp followers included Cher Bono. "We all sat around the coffee table and somebody started passing this vial of white powder," one guest told Rolling Stone later. "Everyone assumed it was coke." In fact, it was "China White" heroin...
ADMITTEDLY, the basic premise of Same Time, Next Year-the annual tryst-is contrived. Nor is the play as a whole devoid of serious flaws. The varying poses that the characters assume are perhaps too stereotypical, too facile a launching pad for tired television pilot jokes. The beginning of the show is especially weak; the humor is artificially imposed, and the emotional resonances that later reinforce the play's comic surfaces are mission...
...view that the U.S., if only for reasons of prestige, could not stand the trauma of seeing Israel defeated in another war with the Arabs. The U.S. indeed would not allow such a defeat under foreseeable circumstances. But that is a fall-back for Israel, not a launch pad for resisting hard decisions necessary for peace...