Word: rubins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...biased the jury by repeatedly making sarcastic remarks about the defendants or their lawyers. Said the opinion: "The demeanor of the judge and prosecutors would require reversal [even] if other errors did not." The court thus overturned the convictions of Rennie Davis, David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman for crossing a state line with intent to start a riot. The trial jury had found the five, plus Lee Weiner and John Froines, innocent of the more controversial conspiracy charge...
...MILES L. RUBIN. Rubin. 42, is a Los Angeles manufacturer and industrialist. Gifts: McGovern, $58, 300; Muskie, $2,000; McCloskey, $4,600. He has also loaned McGovern...
...majority in the fall of 1972. They are in rebellion against the mass consciousness raising attempted by the protesters of the '60s, and weary too of the depredations of youth culture and the S.D.S., the noise of rock carmagnole and the further anarchisms of the "do it" ethic of Rubin and Hoffman. In the adolescence of 19th century Romanticism, the French Poet Theophile Gautier proclaimed: Plutot la barbarie que I'ennui. Now the American mood would reverse the formula: better boredom than that new barbarism. Says Sociology Professor Robert K. Merton of Columbia University: "What McGovern faces is a cumulative...
Then Downey met Manhattan-based Cyma Rubin, the wife of the former owner of Faberge and the fledgling impresario who produced Broadway's No, No, Nanette. She staked him close to $1,000,000 and let him have his head on Greaser's Palace. When the film opened in Manhattan, it was generally lambasted. A couple of critics even suggested that Downey had been borne away by his budget, that his movies were better when their director was a waiter...
Fresh Faces. The media mob included Feminist Germaine Greer (who quickly characterized the convention as "a crock of s-") as well as an "alternative audio collective" called Unicorn Press, which provided spots for some 30 rock radio stations. Yippie Leader Jerry Rubin and his colleague Abbie Hoffman were accredited for the purpose of writing a book about the convention, but they waggishly passed themselves off as correspondents for, respectively. Mad magazine and Popular Mechanics. Politicians who had been excluded from the convention floor by party reform, like Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty and California Congressman Jess Unruh, showed...