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...befits a society of laws, has always been a litigious land. But the past quarter-century has brought a particularly explosive burst of growth in the legal industry. Since the mid-1950s the courts have discovered a spate of new constitutional rights, protections and entitlements for whole groups of people?for example, disenfranchised voters, women, Latins, prisoners, children, mental patients. Countless others, emboldened by seven-figure awards in personal injury suits, have gone to court in quest of what San Francisco Defense Lawyer Scott Conley sardonically calls the "pot of gold at the end of every whiplash." At the same...
...Near You: Dylan was supposed to hand out only three interviews--to hand out any interview at all was regarded by Dylan-watchers as phenomenal, a sign of instability within the regime--to Rolling Stone, New Times, and to John Rockwell of The New York Times. But soon a spate of interviews appeared--in Playboy, in lots of places--and to Dylan-watchers it indicated panic in Malibu. It did not bode well for Renaldo and Clara. For the first time, Dylan was downright solicitous of interviewers, especially the simpering Jonathan Cott of Rolling Stone. It seemed Dylan only wanted...
Police last year seized 11,441 small arms, 937,711 bombs of various kinds and almost 15,000 lbs. of explosives. They also made 590 arrests throughout the year in connection with terrorist acts. These ranged from murder to a spate of leg shootings of journalists, lawyers and businessmen -including, in separate attacks, seven employees of the Fiat automobile company. Industrial sabotage and arson caused more than $55 million worth of damage to factories, not counting numerous minor bombings of public buildings, government offices and party clubs all over the country...
...Thirties and Forties, Chaplin made fewer films, partially because he no longer needed the money, and also because he retreated after a spate of adverse publicity concerning his rather legendary sexual appetite, which shocked most of America. Still, he wrote, directed, produced and starred in City Lights, Modern Times and The Great Dictator, possibly his greatest films. His messages were unmistakable; after Josef Stalin saw The Great Dictator, Chaplin films were never again seen in the Soviet Union...
...concerned South African citizen, I would like to record my protest against the recent spate of bannings and detentions. I would also like to protest, however, against foreign interference in our affairs. Because of its double standards, it is more destructive than constructive and will only serve to extend this government further...