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...cosmetics huckster from Florida, and became his lawyer and adviser. The Government charged Bailey also made speeches endorsing investments in Turner's franchises. When the law came down on Turner for conspiracy to defraud investors, Bailey was indicted too. The evidence against Bailey was thin, but he had to abandon virtually everything else and spend $350,000 and two years fighting the charges, which were eventually dropped after an eight-month trial in Florida ended in a hung jury in 1974. Although Associate Johnson kept the Boston office open, the Bailey firm all but withered away; new business fell...
...events this week made painfully evident, Harvard has a long way to go before it can reap any benefits from its new I.D. cards: Technical difficulties forced Gibson, the director of the office of fiscal services, to abandon his plans to encode the magnetic stripe on each student's I.D. card...
...Brandeis quintet had gone into its swan song and had yet to emerge from the profound torpor. In a singular exhibition of botched marksmanship, the Judges repeatedly rent the oxygen with reckless abandon from any and all points on the floor, as their shooting percentage rivalled the life expenctancy of starved fruit flies...
...work. In each of her films, political principles are beliefs that characters adhere to abstractly, and which bear no relation to their lives. In fact, as her films unfold it becomes apparent that the characters' political principles are in conflict with their lifestyles; when they discover this contradiction, they abandon politics for the things that really make Wertmuller's universe revole; sex, emotions, and material ambition...
...leads into the wreck that allows Pasqualino to desert the troop train and plunges him into the Nazi inferno. The social conditions constraining the characters' action stand outside the narrative itself, temporally distant, colored differently, and represented impersonally. Only when the situation is fully formed and unchangeable can Wertmuller abandon this abstract style to focus on her characters, who naturally must either accept or reject the dictates of circumstances...