Word: sideness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unfavorable judgment. Sometimes it is simply a matter of greed, of contriving any excuse to keep fees rolling in. Favorite devices include making endless pretrial motions on one or another point of procedure, obtaining postponements (continuances) from the court, requesting huge amounts of information from the other side in the pretrial discovery process, or just burying the case in paper work...
...good. In The Seduction of Joe Tynan -forget the dreadful title-he at last gives a movie performance that captures the brittle tenderness of his work on TV's M*;A*;S*H. As Tynan, a likable liberal Senator from New York, Alda usually ends up on the side of right, yet he manages to take the sanctimoniousness out of heroism. His Senator is self-critical, unpretentious and witty. He also looks great in a three-piece suit. Were this fellow actually to enter a primary, New York's incumbent Democrat, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, would...
...Flamingo Road is a place where many of Johansen's obsessions - fashion, high romance, lowlife - all meet and rebound off one another until they form dead ends. Flamingo Road is the street where love is lost and where dreams die. It is probably off somewhere on the far side of Swaheto. You will never find it in Miami Beach. - Jay Cocks
...weekends are caught in an avalanche. One of the men is killed, and the three survivors are trapped on a tiny ledge, with nothing but frigid air and a glacier beneath them. An Army helicopter spots them, but when it angles down for a rescue, it bangs into the side of the mountain and crashes to the ice below...
...women, aged 21 to 37, only one of whom also relied on an I.U.D. The drug was remarkably effective. Only two women showed any signs of ovulation - probably because of faulty dosages, the doctors suspect. Though the hormone's long-term effects are still unknown, immediate side effects were limited to coldlike sniffles and temporary headaches. There is speculation that LRH derivatives may also prove useful as a male contraceptive since gonadotropins regulate the production of sperm, but the actual marketing of a nasal contraceptive for either men or women is years away...