Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chilling Effect. The dubious affair came to light only when Erdmann's lawyer, William Leibovitz, together with the American Civil Liberties Union, went to federal district court to argue that the First Department's justices were violating Erdmann's civil rights. Federal Judge Sylvester J. Ryan said that the issue was out of his jurisdiction, and Erdmann has taken the case to the U.S. court of appeals...
Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark contends that the Sixth Amendment guarantee of the right to counsel gives lawyers full freedom to criticize the judiciary; James Shellow of Milwaukee, secretary of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, asserts that the Erdmann affair "will further support those in the judiciary who feel that they are immune from criticism." Adds Robert H. Levy, a Legal Aid lawyer: "We all now feel forced to choose between abject silence and loss of our profession. One may, it appears, elect to exercise one's own right of free speech or forsake...
...scant supply onscreen. Gone with barely a trace are warmth, joy, insight and even the most elementary kind of entertainment. The story of Tevye, the milkman of a small village in czarist Russia around the time of the pogroms, his nagging wife and his nubile daughters, is a modest affair requiring intimate treatment. Instead, it gets a full-scale Hollywood production. There is a Panavision screen that does not enlarge the proceedings so much as bloat them, color photography that seems poured over the film like a thickening gravy, and a stereophonic sound system that blares the music at high...
...reasons by the Israeli star Topol, who labors under the handicap of having to project great amounts of charm and personality when he has none to spare. The credits for Fiddler list Norman Jewison as producer and director. On the basis of this and past efforts (The Thomas Crown Affair, Gaily Gaily), he might better be called an anaesthetist...
...figures of flesh and blood. He doesn't understand that people in automobiles simply do not allow themselves the same human excesses as people in airports and people in hotels. The book doesn't ring true at moments of such attempted tenderness as the one where--during a weekend affair with a black schoolteacher--Adam says softly. "For the first time in my life I know, really know, what it means when they say 'Black is Beautiful.'" No, the real moments are like the one at a business conference where Hailey has the GM Board Chairman 'whimsically' saying, "Unless anyone...