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...Yeah, well... I think that... umm ... you know ... uh-hah." Actor Robert DeNiro is not voluble. Nor, offscreen, is he particularly visible. Lean, with lanky brown hair and narrow, green-brown eyes, a pallid face by turns near-handsome and homely, he has the protective coloration of a chameleon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Quiet Chameleon | 1/27/1975 | See Source »

...others, who are now comfortable but once suffered economic hardship, want their children to suffer as they did. On her lecture tours round the country, Psychologist Joyce Brothers has discovered that many parents "feel a depression would be good for their children. They themselves lived through the lean years, and now they see their kids rejecting the value of work. They are very exercised by the fact that a man would choose to be a musician rather than pick a more reliable profession like accountancy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Depression Fever | 1/20/1975 | See Source »

They walked quickly up Holyoke Street, then turned right on Mass Ave. Restic, tall and lean, took long strides; Matthews, small and paunchy, scurried to keep...

Author: By Scott A. Kaufer, | Title: Harvard's Real Radical Flak | 1/15/1975 | See Source »

When question number 16 comes, the attorneys lean forward, the gallery stirs, and the reporters pick up their pens. And then Judge James P. McGuire leans back in his chair, turns toward the prospective juror, and asks, "Do you have an opinion as to whether or not all abortions are wrong...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: The Crucial Question Is Abortion | 1/10/1975 | See Source »

Awards may look fat now, but how lean will they get after 20 years of inflation? With that sobering prospect in mind, the lawyers and family of Mrs. June Walker, 52, now lying in a coma in a San Gabriel, Calif., nursing home as a result of a series of improper medical procedures that occurred in a U.C.L.A. clinic, have worked out a new inflation-proof twist for damages in a malpractice suit. Faced with charges that ranged from unnecessary surgery, falsification of records and failure to monitor the patient, University of California regents have agreed to pay Mrs. Walker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Out-of-Sight Settlements | 12/30/1974 | See Source »

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