Word: suits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Litigation will continue, perhaps at " faster pace. "The Supreme Court has not stopped something," says former U.S. Solicitor General Robert Bork, who now teaches law at Yale. "It has started something." Probably more white males will be tempted to file suit against affirmative-action programs on the grounds that they are really hidden quota systems...
...role made Elizabeth Taylor a star at 12. Now Tatum O'Neal is the one with the Velvet touch. The sequel to National Velvet, ecumenically titled International Velvet, premiered at Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center last week. Tatum, sweet 14 and dressed to kill in a silk suit and spike-heeled sandals, was fetchingly on hand. "I didn't even want to become an actress," she confessed. "It just sort of happened...
...executive is kidnaped and his company fails to free him as quickly as possible, he or his family can bring-and possibly win-a damage suit against his employers for negligence. Fred Rayne admits that on behalf of two foreign corporations he has handed over $1.5 million to Latin American terrorists as ransom for kidnaped executives. It was a bargain, he argues, since the executives might otherwise have sued for much more...
...station sued to gain entry, Houchins announced a program of regular monthly prison tours open to the public, including reporters. There were a few catches: no cameras, no tape recorders, no interviews with inmates and no access at all to the Little Greystone building. The station pressed its suit, and a federal district court ordered the sheriff to grant the press wider access...
...beloved Sudah, an Egyptian-Israeli artist cum hippie cum pacifist, spend days assembling highly unorthodox outfits for their Orthodox wedding. Mara's veil is an old tea-stained lace tablecloth that gets caught on her steel-rimmed glasses; Sudah is resplendent in a black velvet suit, cape and top hat. First Novelist Tova Reich's glancing Swiftian wit never flags. She introduces one Rabbi Leon Lieb, who owns a chain of nursing homes and uses cajolery, threats and his-and-her fox cloaks as he obsessively tries to transform his son-in-law into a proper husband...