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...Texas Professor Charles Alan Wright; on the other, the special Watergate prosecutor, Harvard Law Professor Archibald Cox, and three assistants. For 20 minutes they sat waiting in their blue leather chairs. Wright adjusted his tweed vest. Cox toyed with his half-moon spectacles. Finally, at 10, to the bailiff's ceremonial cry of "God save the United States of America and this honorable court," Judge John J. Sirica strode in, sat down in his red leather chair, and called on Wright to step to the lectern in front of the bench...
...PROPHETS, two identical saviors appear in a standing-room-only world of the future. The governing Regent, his assistant, the Bailiff, and Professors Gaspar, Melchior, and Balthazar conspire to kill off one of the Prophets so that the other can take over. But their plan miscarries, and both Prophets as well as all of the plotters except the Bailiff end up dead. As you may suspect, the parallel to the original Christ story is a little like a smack in the face. Dramatically, though, it's a better play than Repeat Performance: there is one very good chase scene...
BRATTLE THEATRE Sancho the Bailiff, 5:30, 9:35. Father Panchaili...
...unobtrusive. The area in front of Judge Richard E. Arnason's bench is clogged with tables and people. At one table Prosecutor Albert W. Harris Jr. sits with an assistant. The rest of the limited space is filled by half a dozen deputies with walkie-talkies and a bailiff-all armed with revolvers. In the first rows sit 30 members of the press contingent, which includes correspondents from the Soviet Union and East Germany, where Angela Davis is considered a political prisoner...
...thinking that he would have trouble with objections to evidence. "But it came easy," he said after presiding over a fire-damage case. "I could see it a mile off. The real area of work was preparing instructions for the jury. The court people, the clerk and reporter and bailiff, keep you right on track. I really had fun." Added Goodin: "When you're up there running the joint, it's different. You have to react instead of act. From being a rabid advocate, you've got to try to become a wise and just judge. Keeping...