Word: patrick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHAT they've liked a great deal lately is the movie A Doll's House (the Patrick Garland directed version). Tennis placed a sorry second the week the movie hit Detroit. Middle-aged women in laced panties and tasselled socks scurried around the court as if they had just added 'Liberated' to the "Ladies Tennis League." The movie must have been made for them...
...Doll's House. Christopher Hampton adapts Ibsen's play and refuses to capitalize on its Feminist aspects; he doesn't have to, they are built in. But when Patrick Garland brings it to the screen he cops out in the film on what is most effective in the play. Nora (Claire Bloom) has that sort of perfect fine-featured face with lines of tension at the edges that tell you about the anxiety she suffers in living up to the Victorian ideal of femininity: women should be seen and not heard. She finally slams the door...
Most disturbing was the violence that scarred the three-week election campaign. Nearly 90 bombs were detonated and 23 persons killed, bringing the death toll in Ulster during the past four years to 839. Two days before the election, Patrick Wilson, a leading Catholic politician and a chief aide to S.D.L.P. Leader Gerry Fitt, was hacked to death by an apparently new Protestant terrorist group called the Ulster Freedom Fighters. Wilson's murder suggested that members of the new Assembly would have a difficult time ahead of them in governing the still troubled province...
Smith learned that when L. Patrick Gray became acting director of the FBI after Hoover's death, he agreed to a White House order that the taps be continued; the bugging stopped only after the Supreme Court ruling in June 1972 that domestic wiretaps were illegal unless authorized by a court. When TIME asked for White House reaction to the story, Dean was in "a real quandary" and went to John Ehrlichman for advice. According to Dean, both he and Ehrlichman knew that the story was true, but Ehrlichman said, "Just flat out deny it." "Now," Dean added, "that...
...Patrick Gray. Egil Krogh. Henry Petersen. Herbert Porter, Donald Segretti and. of course. Richard M. Nixon...