Word: witnesse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Intentional homage, subconscious emulation or calculated rip-off? For Selle's suit against the Bee Gees, four bars of the two scores were blown up to display a suspiciously exact correspondence of notes; on the witness stand, even Bee Gee Maurice Gibb couldn't tell the two songs apart. The...
There is a catch for the powerful though. No matter how upscale a Manhattanite climbs, he can never escape the sight of poverty or the threat of violence. The glitterati on their way to a $1,000-a-ticket gala must tiptoe through the homeless camped outside in their cardboard...
Backstage at the White House, there was some gratification derived from the fact that the American people had at last been able to witness the arrogance of electronic journalism. "The network correspondents quite often think they are more important than the President," says a Reagan aide. When Newsday's veteran...
Once past thirtysomething and A Year in the Life, TV's family album gets considerably bleaker. Fully assembled nuclear families are scarce on the season's new sitcoms; swinging singles and unattached parents are in. One new twist, however, is a trend to half-hour shows that eschew laugh tracks...
The ancient Hindu rite of suttee, requiring a woman to immolate herself on the funeral pyre of her husband, was abolished in British India in 1829. But early this month, when her young husband died suddenly of gastroenteritis, Roop Kanwar, 18, a bride of just eight months, declared her intention...