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Having signed a bill nixing exemptions from jury duty on the basis of certain types of employmentt Jerry Brown, 43, could hardly cop a plea when called to spend some time in the box himself. So last week, with about 30 reporters and photographers, half a dozen plainclothesmen and several aides in tow, the California Governor became plain ole Citizen Brown and trooped into a Sacramento courtroom. Elected foreman, he announced a unanimous "not guilty" verdict on the misdemeanor charge being heard. Were his box mates hesitant to disagree with him? "No," said Sacramento Housewife Anna Holmes...
...show people is extraordinarily harrowing. Michael Biehn, as the madman, combines a sort of mad innocence with creepiness very effectively, and there are good bits, as well, by Maureen Stapleton as Bacall's patiently put-upon secretary and by Hector Elizondo as a smart but slightly star-struck cop...
...Terps who qualified last for the tournament and were seeded eighth, edged Ursinus, 5-4. in the finals to cop the national crown...
...miss the point of his choosing Prague as the site for his remarks, he said: "I am sure we have a common stand with Czechoslovakia, just as with the other countries of the socialist community." The statement seemed to be a nod to Husák's bad-cop routine, but its effect was to remind Polish listeners that it was not so long ago that the loyal Czechs were as obstreperous as they...
...deadly menace; policemen walk toward The Thing because that's their job. Alligator provides a terse manual on the care, feeding and ultimate annihilation of 2,000-lb., 36-ft.-long reptiles-and on the art of making a grind-house movie with care and wit. Good Cop David Madison (Robert Forster, in an authoritatively low-key performance) is forever being reminded of his thinning hair; and, when he learns that the alligator has grown to monster proportions by ingesting hormones, Madison grunts hopefully, "Maybe he'll die of cancer...