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...measure of the extent to which Dworkin has succeeded in stimulating his colleagues-whether positively or negatively-is the experience of the Georgia Law Review. The editors solicited articles for a special issue on jurisprudence-and found that virtually every contribution addressed the challenging thoughts of the Yank at Oxford...
...Successful getaway on April 23, 1967, from Missouri state pen. Ray claims he clambered up a water pipe and used a stolen steel hook to yank himself over the prison wall, but prison officials believe he hid in a large bread crate, and escaped in a delivery truck that carried...
...Cornelius Ryan's bestselling history, does permit Britain's acting fraternity to redeem its generals' follies. Whatever is lively and memorable in the film, which is not much, is provided by the English members of the most expensive all-star cast in recent memory. Their Yank allies, doubtless because they had second-banana roles in the original production 33 years ago, have dim, brief lives on the screen...
Carter reveled in it all, while Callaghan hoped that some of the good will for the Yank would rub off on him. Was Carter campaigning for Callaghan? "Absolutely not," said Press Secretary Jody Powell. Perhaps. But by the end of their five hours in the Newcastle area, Callaghan was working the crowds, pressing the flesh with both hands, beaming and performing. The next day he even wore his own J.C. pin-striped suit. The P.M. had learned a lesson -from a master...
Schumacher wants to yank Beale off the air, but Diana Christenson (Faye Dunaway), the network's head of programming, senses enough viewer interest in a nutty anchorman to boost the ailing network into Nielsen heaven. The news department becomes part of Christenson's entertainment empire, and, as the "mad prophet" of the air waves, Beale gains 60% of the audience and puts the double-whammy on such stolid, sane types as Walter Cronkite and John Chancellor. "Howard Beale is processed instant God," Christenson gushes, "and right now it looks like he may just go over bigger than Mary...