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...where his show has transferred from its base in Brooklyn during a technicians' strike against nbc. About 7 p.m. Wednesday, after the final run- through, the cast is dismissed. Cosby still wants to pore over the script and fix a couple of scenes that eight-year-old Keshia Knight Pulliam is finding troublesome. But he will do that at home, after dinner...
Though Phylicia Ayers-Allen, as Dr. Huxtable's wife, is too young by a decade, the youngsters who play their rambunctious brood (Lisa Bonet, Malcolm- Jamal Warner, Tempestt Bledsoe and Keshia Knight-Pulliam) are charming. So is Cosby, most of the time. The veteran stand-up comic, commercial pitchman and star of three former TV series has found an ideal format for his gently satiric humor. In the face of life's little annoyances, Cosby's demeanor is a sardonic slow burn; his response, exasperated hyperbole. "I had a rough day yesterday," he complains. "Every child born on the face...
...case involved Gladys Pulliam, a Virginia magistrate who ordered two men held in jail because they could not make bail, even though they were charged with minor offenses that carried no jail terms. The two men got a federal injunction forbidding such jailing by Pulliam in the future, and a later order assessing the judge more than $7,000 for their legal fees. The four dissenters, led by Justice Lewis Powell, feared that judicial independence would now be eroded by "the ever present threat of burdensome litigation." But Justice Harry Blackmun, writing for the majority, could find no historical basis...
...Paul Pulliam...
Died. Eugene C. Pulliam, 86, conservative publisher of the Arizona Republic, the Indianapolis Star and several other newspapers; of a stroke; in Phoenix. Once a hustling young reporter for the Kansas City Star, at 23 he became editor and publisher of the Atchison Champion in Kansas and began building an empire that at one time or another included 46 papers...