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...Brendan Sullivan, jumped to his client's defense. Sullivan challenged the Senator, saying that Inouye purported to be listening to the American people. Some 20,000 favorable telegrams were sitting on his desk, the lawyer protested, and that represented the people's will. In the face of such popular acclaim, allusions to the Nuremberg trials in connection with North were offensive, Sullivan said. The appeal was successful, and Inouye dropped the analogy...
...Harvard is a massive university with international acclaim, dealing with world issues, yet does not deal with the community that surrounds it," Graham says. And when they do address community problems it is in a "very harsh way," she adds...
...Passage marked one of the happier points of Golding's long career; it won the Booker Prize, England's most prestigious publishing award, and three years later its author received the Nobel Prize for Literature. Small wonder that Golding might want to extend a book that earned so much acclaim. The greater surprise is that he succeeds...
...vivid portrait of a fortyish Jewish man on Manhattan's Upper West Side in the mid-1950s, yet it refuses to promulgate a larger message about Jews, New York City or life in the '50s. And finally, for the very fact that it was made. Despite his widespread acclaim (and a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1976), Saul Bellow has never before had a novel turned into a film. It is hard to imagine anyone doing a better job. The adaptation, written by Ronald Ribman and directed by Fielder Cook, takes a few careful liberties with Bellow's story...
With its critical, popular and insider acclaim swelling, Platoon began to shoulder its way toward the front rank of Oscar favorites. By now it would have to be counted as the front runner, and Hollywood is furrowing its back with self-congratulatory pats for making this big bold message movie. To Stone, Hollywood's claim of paternity for Platoon must seem a rich joke. He and Hollywood both know that Platoon -- like The Deer Hunter, Apocalypse Now, The Boys in Company C, The Killing Fields and nearly all the serious movies about the war in Southeast Asia -- secured its major...