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Osborne's resume looks impressive--Harvard, Harvard Law, a clerkship with a Federal Appeals Court judge in Philadelphia, an apprenticeship with a top New York law firm--and he apparently feels compelled to write about the high powered life during his leisure hours. First there was The Paper Chase, a novel he wrote while a student at the Law School. Following his stint in a corporate law firm, Osborne moved to Yale where he is now writing a book about "life in a corporate law firm," according to his publisher's press release. In between, Osborne wrote The Only Thing...
STILL, MOST of the blame for stereotypic characterization belongs to director Kotcheff and his scriptwriter Mordecai Richler, the same team responsible for the superior The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz. By choosing the names Dick and Jane (and Billy for their child, Spot for their dog), Richler intends to present a typical family. At one point, Dick shouts that he won't be destroyed, because he represents the American middle class. But this conception of the middle class appears ludicrous, unless Richler wishes to depict the average Beverly Hills household, replete with swimming pool and cabana. It's difficult to sympathize...
Bold Idea. Does that mean the Steelworkers intend to import to the U.S. the Japanese idea of guaranteed employment with the same company from apprenticeship to grave? No one can say: the union has yet to figure out how to put its bold idea into practice. Steelworkers Special Counsel Elliot Bredhoff concedes that the whole concept "is rather nebulous. We'll be exploring all ideas." About the only thing that is certain is the demand will not lead to a strike when contracts covering 337,600 workers at the Big Ten steel companies expire July 31. The talks will...
Bird's lack of judicial experience should be no bar to her, though. Outstanding jurists have moved directly to the nation's highest court without apprenticeship on any bench. Felix Frankfurter was a Harvard law professor when F.D.R. named him to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1939. Earl Warren was plucked from California's governorship to become Chief Justice in 1953-though he had also been a D.A. and the state's attorney general. At present, there are three men on the Supreme Court-Justices William H. Rehnquist, Lewis F. Powell and Byron R. White...
...this is a fairy tale, not a cutting satire. Neither the bullets nor the issues are real. Dick and Jane pick only safe targets; they knock over a telephone company office and win a round of applause from the queue of bill payers. Briskly propelled by Director Kotcheff (The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz), they skim through their adventures as innocently as a pair of prankish collegians. The only laws they are unable to flout are the iron laws of comic contrivance. They must, it seems, receive an implausible invitation to a party at the offices of the firm that fired...