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...Deep Throat affair is over now, two months after the film society decided to pay off their debts--$400 worth of damage done when someone hurled beer at a Science Center movie screen--by showing a stag film. It didn't end in a burst of glory for either side. The DA's office realized they were fighting a battle they would eventually lose. They offered to settle, and the defense, unwilling to pay the emotional price of continuing the battle, accepted a technical victory that stands far short of defending the first amendment...
...million cases (4.5 million gal.) each, some of the most interesting wines are being made by comparatively small estates that have started up in the past two decades. They are owned by engineers and airline pilots, big businessmen and corporations. Most of the bottles shipped by such wineries as Stag's Leap Wine Cellars, Chappellet, Santa Ynez, Burgess, Joseph Swan, Sanford & Benedict, J. Lohr, Keenan, Heitz and Chateau St. Jean are instant sellouts-often at higher prices than comparable French, Italian or German vintages. A tasting...
...well as his greatness. His Caesar could as easily be the chairman of some conglomerate as dictator of the Roman world. When the Ides of March finally arrive for him, Director Herbert Wise has the conspirators slowly circle around him, like snarling dogs around a tired stag. It is a shockingly intense scene and, as he is struck by Brutus, his favorite, Caesar clutches and almost kisses him, uttering a scarcely audible "Et tu, Brute...
...assumed to be profeminist, most of the laughter it arouses in the audience stems from trading on stereotypical masculine prejudices. Viewing an obscene film involving a pornographic film maker, one of the Justices says of Justice Loomis' presence that it is "like having a nun at a stag party...
...came to the plague, sufferers were treated by various measures designed to draw poison or infection from the body: by bleeding, purging with laxatives or enemas, lancing or cauterizing the buboes, or application of hot plasters. None of this was of much use. Medicines ranged from pills of powdered stag's horn or myrrh and saffron to potions of potable gold. Compounds of rare spices and powdered pearls or emeralds were prescribed, possibly on the theory, not unknown to modern medicine, that a patient's sense of therapeutic value is in proportion to the expense...