Word: tether
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Short Tether. Significantly shifting the burden of proof to censors, Justice William J. Brennan ruled that "the exhibitor must be assured by statute or authoritative judicial construction that the censor will, within a specified brief period, either issue a license or go to court to restrain showing the film." As for the judicial part of the process, Brennan suggested that it should take no more than three or four days...
...Black concurred, but they wanted to go much further. "I would put an end to all forms and types of censorship and give full literal meaning to the command of the First Amendment," insisted Douglas. His brethren thought it was enough simply to put the censor on a shorter tether...
Another Ambition. Despite success in her chosen career, Sheilah Graham played her most satisfying role during the three years (1937-40) she spent in Hollywood with F. Scott Fitzgerald, then at the end of his tether. With Ghostwriter Gerold Frank, Miss Graham told that story in the bestselling Beloved Infidel (TIME, Nov. 24, 1958). "I was never a mistress," writes Miss Graham firmly in her current book, whose very title pays tribute to the depth of that experience. "I was a woman who loved Scott Fitzgerald for better or worse until he died...
...rescue: one of the kids gets into some dire difficulty and is saved by the prospective groom. When Uncle Red Buttons brings over a lot of surplus weather balloons and rigs up a harness so the boys can try gravity-free "moon-walking," little Grover (Peter Robbins) breaks tether and is soon soaring over San Diego and out to sea. Instantly, much of Southern California is in a state of emergency. An aircraft carrier, a fire engine, a fleet of patrol boats, an LST, swarms of helicopters, jets and amphibian planes, an ambulance, police cars and a posse of excitable...
...only regret is that those responsible for the article apparently have been too lethargic to practice the "Recipes for Living and Loving." To them I particularly recommend the tether-ball recipe...