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...School students. He also learned to hate the way law students stabbed each other to succeed at it. In Osborn's new expose. The Associates, Samuel Weston, fresh from Harvard Law School, shares those passions. In Weston's lofty view, work at Bass and Marshall is grinding, trivial and dehumanizing, especially when it interferes with Sam's love for another associate, Camilla Newman. The attraction, however, is a mystery. Ms. Newman is profane, nasty and thoroughly obsessed by her job. Her few excursions into sex make Last Tango in Paris seem tender. When she dumps Weston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Law Firm Follies | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

...House. The business under discussion was about as trivial as it could be. Congressmen were passing a resolution urging the Merchant Marine to select an official march for the first time. Nevertheless, the 23-minute session was historic. It was taped by an elaborate $1.2 million complex of television equipment from a control room in a subbasement of the Capitol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Hill Reform | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

Congress, however, must attend to all the not-so-trivial details of such a convention. How will the delegates be chosen? Will the states have equal representation, as in the U.S. Senate, or will their votes be weighted according to population? How long can the convention go on? Above all, must it stick to the issue for which it was called, or is it free to consider other matters as well? The convention can certainly be restricted, declares U.S. Attorney General Griffin Bell. "Limits can be set," he says. "Congress has a duty to do so." Paul Freund...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Shades of the Founding Fathers | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

...CHILD I had nightmares about Hitler; showers terrified me. My encounter with Joe Grady and his band left no similarly traumatic impressions. They were repellant but trivial, farmers and workers in a juvenile boys club, parading around in silly costumes on an isolated farm knowing that people in the city wanted nothing to do with them. It's been a long time since the local Klan made headlines in Winston-Salem. The article I wrote, only a few paragraphs long, was buried deep in the Sunday paper...

Author: By Joanne L. Kenen, | Title: Stalking the Klan | 2/17/1979 | See Source »

They were repellant but trivial, farmers and workers in a juvenile boys' club...

Author: By Joanne L. Kenen, | Title: Stalking the Klan | 2/17/1979 | See Source »

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