Word: wonderful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Neckties are a little like wasp-waist corsets for women: even if one admires the look, he must wonder why they need to be uncomfortable. To be neat, the tie requires a shirt buttoned snugly at the Adam's apple. So, especially of course in summer, the body notices that it is airlessly bound at waist, wrists and neck. Food for the stomach and air for the lungs must pass down this strait constricted to appease teachers, bosses and headwaiters...
...series of protests will culminate or Sunday with a benefit concert featuring Richie Havens, Buffy St. Marie, and Steve Wonder...
...another case, a somewhat petulant opinion by Chief Justice Burger declared that the press had no more free-speech rights than anyone else. The outburst caused many to wonder if Burger did not have a personal peeve against the press. "There is a certain undertone of resentment against the press, a sort of 'Who do they think they are?' feeling among a few Justices," remarked Michigan's Blasi. But he warned against overplaying the court as antipress. Like other First Amendment experts, Blasi points to a little-noticed unanimous decision striking down criminal sanctions against a newspaper...
Some TV journalists wonder. One major complaint is that the more money anchors make, the less is left over for news coverage, a charge that station executives deny. "An individual's salary is a pittance in our budget," says News Director Norman Fein of New York's WNBC, which spends $13.5 million a year on news coverage. Yet disgruntled off-camera journalists at Los Angeles' KNBC figure that the salaries of the "talent," as on-camera personalities are known in the trade, account for nearly one-quarter of the station's $9.5 million news budget...
...made of his celebrated statement that in a purposeless world the only vital question was one of suicide. His novels The Stranger and The Fall describe souls out of touch with a moral landscape; The Plague watches townspeople succumb to a literal and spiritual disease. It is small wonder that at his death Camus seemed the spokesman of despairing existentialism, a cinematic figure as doom-ridden as any of his characters...