Word: exceptions
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Larry Hagman had only one line. It never got out. Instead, the actor stared dumbly at the audience. If he has been tongue-tied in the 40 years since that grade-school pageant, the occasion has gone unrecorded. Today Hagman likes to talk the way Texans like to spend. Except on Sundays, when there is a rule of silence at his Malibu spread. "You've got to have a day of rest somewhere along the line," he explains. "Every major religion...
...third session went without an incident, except for the Seahawks' surprise quarterback tiptoe, which scored them a goal. They made the free throw, too, which earned them an extra few seconds on the clock. But right after that, Gale Sawyers, one of the best Bear guards ever, and one of the best ever in the American League West, scored four lay-ups to put the St. Louis Bay Buccaneers so far behind that they didn't stand a chance with only a few seconds remaining in the third quarter...
Would it hurt if I told you that in the end this is all a shaggy dog story that it turns out there was absolutely no reason to have raised the Titanic, except that it sure looks mighty fine steaming into New York Harbor? "It's just as well," Robards says when the byzanium turns out to be quarry gravel. "Someday, someone would have put this to offensive use. They would have built a byzanium bomb." Why then, he is asked, did he spend five years looking for the stuff? "If anyone was going to do it, I wanted...
JOHN DRONEY: If Dershowitz is "noted first amendment lawyer Alan Dershowitz," then John Droney is "ailing district attorney John Droney." Described as "charming" by those who met with him in the course of investigation, Droney is so handicapped that he cannot speak except through an interpreter. At first it seemed that Droney would take a back seat in the Deep Throat case; then, however, the defense decided to take a deposition from Droney, elected in a squeaker two years ago. Excerpts from the deposition gave a flavor of Droney's approach to his job as the county...
...delay them from going to the bathroom or getting something they needed. The tougher captors, including a fellow called "Old Stoneface" by the hostages, "were on a real ego trip," says Queen. "This was the big moment of their lives." Queen was blindfolded whenever he left his room, and except for his roommates, he was not allowed to speak to other hostages...