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...trouble blacks today when they are exposed to films made for earlier generations. Like their Hollywood counterparts, these movies often traffic heavily in racial stereotypes-Big Mommas ruling their matriarchies with flying skillets, lazy males shuffling off to drink and gamble away the rent money, tight-skirted temptresses with whiplash hips luring the pious into evil ways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Artifacts of a Lost Culture | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

During the past 15 years, the American automobile has been designed almost as much by Washington bureaucrats as by Detroit automakers. In order to comply with federal safety and consumer-protection regulations, cars took on a variety of new features that included anti-whiplash headrests, impact-resistant bumpers, and safety belts that set off an irritating buzz until everyone in front had buckled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recall on Regulations | 4/20/1981 | See Source »

...marine insurance, but notoriously litigious Americans have always wanted more than mere insurance. As soon as the automobile became popular, the motoring public began to develop what San Francisco Liability Lawyer Scott Conley calls the belief that "there must be a pot of gold at the end of every whiplash." Now the old litigious spirit has become almost a reflex. Malpractice suits against doctors are epidemic. The volume of damage suits, doubling in some jurisdictions in the past ten to 15 years, has been increasing five times as fast as the population in bellwether California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Of Hazards, Risks and Culprits | 8/28/1978 | See Source »

Personal Injury Lawyer Lewis sought to try the case by the same negligence standard used in an ordinary whiplash suit. NBC should have foreseen that its movie might inspire violent crime, he maintained; therefore the network, like a homeowner who leaves a banana peel lying on his front stoop where someone could slip on it, should pay damages to the victim. Constitutional Lawyer Abrams, on the other hand, argued that his clients should be held liable only if the network actually intended to cause attacks like the one on Niemi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: TV Wins a Crucial Case | 8/21/1978 | See Source »

...groups of people?for example, disenfranchised voters, women, Latins, prisoners, children, mental patients. Countless others, emboldened by seven-figure awards in personal injury suits, have gone to court in quest of what San Francisco Defense Lawyer Scott Conley sardonically calls the "pot of gold at the end of every whiplash." At the same time, legislative bodies of every size across America have been spewing forth new laws at a prodigious rate, more than 100,000 in some years; as it happens, more than half of the members of Congress and one-fifth of the state legislators are lawyers. Federal agencies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Those | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

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