Word: performs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...generation, not to mention a generation of cinema, and Dean became a cult hero overnight. His talent is both marvelous and overwhelming, and the supporting cast is understated enough not to cramp his style. Natalie Wood, Jim Backus, Sal Mineo, Edward "Chief" Platt, and William "Paul Drake" Hopper all perform creditably in Dean's all-encompassing shadow. Even if you have seen this film four times before, see it again, for one reason: in the scene where Dean and Natalie Wood are at the old house for the first time, he does an unbelievably good imitation of Mr. Magoo which...
...case requiring newsmen to answer grand jury questions, White, again for the majority, indicated that "in proper circumstances a subpoena could be issued to the President of the United States." And in the Pentagon papers case, Chief Justice Warren E. Burger criticized the New York Times for failing "to perform one of the basic and simple duties of every citizen" when it became aware of stolen property. "That duty ... was to report forthwith to responsible officers. This duty rests on taxi drivers, Justices and the New York Times." It is because of observations like these that many legal scholars guess...
...family planning center has insisted that the operation was properly explained to Mrs. Relf, but she denies this. Had she then given a valid, informed consent, and did she have the legal right to do so? Or, more broadly, what right does the Government have to perform such an operation...
...MacGraw, 34, the willowy Wellesley graduate whose acting (Love Story) is still accidental; and The Getaway rebel Steve McQueen, 43; she for the third time, he for the second; in Cheyenne, Wyo. McQueen summoned a justice of the peace from a golf course to a city park to perform the ceremony, which was attended by McQueen's son and daughter and MacGraw's son by her second husband, Robert Evans, vice president in charge of production at Paramount Pictures...
Then after an announcement that the second half of the show is "not recommended for children," the Otrabandists perform Stump Removal, a raucous satire on the evils of modern society. In the eerie light cast by pie-plate reflectors strung to a pair of Coleman lanterns, a mad scientist creates four human beings who romp about in long underwear of various hues and are taught to be guilty, suspicious, prejudiced and greedy. A second batch of people whipped up by the scientist revolts, however, and imprisons him under an upended grocery cart...