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...town this summer A McDonald's opened. This was such a monumental event that my brother and two friends slept outside McDonald's on the eve of its grand opening and were rewarded with the first three hamburgers. Their picture was on the front page of another area newspaper, Patent Trader, and the local radio station taped an interview. They were heroes. It created even more excitement than the visit of Ronald McDonald two weeks later...
...look to the top income groups for revenue, it will remain the spiritual home of the American working class-no matter how many books Kevin Phillips writes. The Republicans can never deliver on tax reform so long as it means an attack on corporate privilege, oil depletion allowances, patent controls, licensing of utilities and the leasing of lands. The reform of all these items may seem visionary in light of past Congressional history. It would require a solemn party commitment and entail an enormously difficult investigation of ownership and pricing practices...
...viewing the film "in its tedious entirety," Judge Moore and his colleagues agreed that it was protected by the First Amendment because it fell far short of the Supreme Court's standards for obscenity. The prevailing doctrine requires 1) appeal to prurient interest as a dominant theme, 2) patent offensiveness and 3) utter lack of redeeming social value. Though Moore dryly noted that Language is unlikely to be viewed "primarily by marriage counselors and their patients in a professional setting," he found no predominant prurience in a film that treats intercourse with all the passion of an ag-school...
...determining redeeming social value, one criterion is whether or not the sex scenes advance the "ideas" of the film. Language is impeccable by that standard, Moore suggested, since sex is the idea. But what of patent offensiveness according to prevailing community standards? The judge wondered wistfully if such an innocuous film could even hope to hold its own on 42nd Street. "Judging by the current fare in New York," he observed, "this film is going to be hard-pressed to match the level of candor of its competition...
...others before him, that if handwriting could reveal the secrets of the inner self, it might be possible to change the self by changing the handwriting. De Sainte Colombe, who moved to Hollywood from Paris in 1940, makes claims for his treatment that sound something like a patent-medicine label. Graphotherapy, he has said, can be used to treat introversion, unsustained will power, lack of self-confidence, excessive drinking or smoking, sexual disturbances, timidity, laziness, depression and emotional instability...