Word: specter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...FARMER begins reworking his epic from a Grating to an R, the film stands still. The specter of Julie Andrews baring her breasts on the Silver Screen can't keep a movie going for another hour. Focusing on a Farmer now independent of Hollywood, Edwards loses touch with the object of his satire. He resorts to silliness, the gimmicks that sustained Pink Panther films--destructive car chases, etc.--that are incongruous and pointless here...
...girlfriends? So reasoned Ray Cummings, 60, a murderer serving a life term at California's San Quentin Prison. When authorities turned down Cummings' request for occasional 48-hour visits from his girlfriend Susan, who is in her late 20s, he went to court. His attorney, Don Specter of Berkeley, argues that the state is not entitled "to decide who your loved ones are and whom you are to spend time with in prison." So far, two courts have responded unromantically. A more promising solution would seem to be marriage, but Cummings, who lived with Susan for seven years...
...almost a year, Poland's embattled Communist leaders have faced the twin threats of domestic social revolution and military invasion by the Soviet Union. Now another ominous specter looms: national bankruptcy...
...been illegal since 1947 for citizens to be members of any secret organization. What makes the P2 affair especially explosive, however, is the specter of the vast conspiracy raised in an investigating magistrates' report that also was divulged by Forlani. The scandal originally came to light during an investigation by Milan judicial officials into the affairs of Sicilian Financier Michele Sindona, an accused P2 member currently serving a 25-year prison sentence in the U.S. for fraud in connection with the 1974 collapse of the Franklin National Bank. Investigating magistrates claimed to have found evidence that lodge members...
...force the British government to grant special political status to himself and 700 other I.R.A. members imprisoned in the Maze. But he had managed to fan Republican passions - and street violence - to levels unseen in the North in nearly a decade. His death raised the specter of more terror to come and tightened the tension between those implacable opponents, the I.R.A. and the British government...