Word: sweetheart
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...century the indeterminate sentence has been the sweetheart of prison reformers. Yet this month Illinois becomes the fourth state in two years-after Maine, California and Indiana-to install a system of judicially fixed, predetermined sentences in place of the traditional, often capricious program of discretionary release by parole authorities. Moves are afoot in 15 other states to do the same. As the respected Corrections Magazine puts it, "Determinate sentencing is clearly an idea whose time has come...
Burt Reynolds is the white running-back hero, Billy Clyde Puckett, Kris Kristofferson is his buddy, split end Shake Tiller, and Jill Clayburgh is the girl of their dreams, Miss Barbara Jane Bookman, a Phyllis George clone who looks to have maybe been Sigma Chi Sweetheart of 1962 at Ole Miss. And before this proceeds any further, the discriminating moviegoer should know that while Semi-Tough is at times an honestly funny film, it is also maddeningly sexist...
...nicks are another reason that the 1890s are good for story writing; modern times don't seem to have nicks, only a lot of existential despair, and it is hard to find a place to hang a plot), Elliott rescues a sinking seaman, who happens to be the sweetheart of Lampie's daughter Nora (Helen Reddy). All of the townspeople gather to drive off greedy Dr. Terminus and to sing a big production number to let Elliott know they think he's an O.K. dragon. Like most of the other big song-and-dance routines, this...
...enjoyment, and even though she's never met me she gets a lot of enjoyment out of it, etc., etc. Her name is (Being Witheld) and she lives on the second floor of Bates Hall. The zip code at Wellesley is 02181, and everybody who thinks she was a sweetheart for writing to me should write to her and tell her so. I have never been out to Wellesley, but apparently one of the copies of this silly magazine--which gets thrown from the top of Holyoke Center every week by crazed futurists who think it's going...
Breathless Claim. This loan was the focus of the most sensational of the charges. New York Times Columnist William Safire, a former Nixon speechwriter, raised the question of whether the $3.4 million loan that was granted on Jan. 7, after Lance had accepted the sensitive OMB job, was a "sweetheart loan." Safire claimed rather breathlessly that the deal was an opportunity for the bank's chairman, A. Robert Abboud, who is extremely influential in Chicago Democratic politics, "to gain life-and-death financial control over the man closest to the President...