Word: melvins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...issue is not so simple, and the case that will be brought this week in Santa Barbara by personal injury lawyer Melvin Belli shows why. His argument rests on the notion that companies which manufacture a product ought to inform their customers of the dangers of using that product. The question is not whether smokers are responsible for their choice to smoke cigarettes. Of course they are; they're dying prematurely as a consequence of that choice. The issue is whether corporations are responsible for honestly advertising and labeling the products they manufacture...
Galvin and eight other candidates have officially filed election papers. And at least one other candidate, Melvin H. King, who ran for mayor of Boston in 1983, confirmed he will definitely run for the seat...
Harvard's contribution to the United Nations-declared "National Anti-Apartheid Day" will culminate outside Lamont Library at noon today, with a rally outside featuring former Boston Mayoral candidate Melvin H. King...
...students in the audience had various criticisms to offer on the format. While Vivian Wong of the Harvard Advocate thought its was a generally good idea to get poetry out into the public spaces, she felt" the program could use a little more structure"--some unifying theme. Sheila Melvin was more direct in her criticism. Referring to the almost condescending nature of the selections, she said that "poets shouldn't come to the people, people should come to the poets...
While agreeing with Wong that the event was a worthwhile idea, Melvin also criticised the general quality of the readings as "poor." Many of the readers assumed a drawing room tone, which might have sufficed in a library but which could not keep the attention of listeners under a glaring mid-afternoon sun. The few instances of enthusiasm and creative eccentricity on the part of the reader elicited warm response from an otherwise listless audience...