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Such economic considerations have changed what was once a chivalrous game into a nasty business. In the old days, poachers and water bailiffs both took a more romantic view of things. Says Dai Thomas, 60, a retired mechanic and sometime poacher from St. Clears, Wales, who was taught the art at the age of eight by his father: "I love poaching. It's a sport. I know where the fish hides, in the deep pools at the banks underneath the roots. I tickle the salmon. He thinks I'm playing with him, which makes me sad because once...
...Westerner looked at Japanese movies-at Kurosawa's kamikaze-type warriors in The Seven Samurai and Yojimbo, or Ozu's gentle heroines in Tokyo Story and The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice, or Mizoguchi's evocations of Kabuki drama in Ugetsu and Sansho the Bailiff-he, could tell himself, 'This is Japan!' He can't find that kind of false reassurance in the works of Imamura or Oshima...
...marble-and-mahogany courtroom. While 500 invited guests looked on, she was seated in the chair once occupied by John Marshall, the Chief Justice (1801 -1835) who introduced the principle of judicial review of executive and legislative acts, establishing the court's authority in the fledgling nation. The bailiff cried the traditional "oyez, oyez," and the eight Justices stood silently behind the wooden bench. O'Connor then took a second oath ("I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States ..."), and a clerk of the court helped Justice O'Connor...
With the court's permission, the woman and the bailiff proceeded down the main aisle of the courtroom, looking for the man who stole $11.50 from her purse two weeks ago. Most of the Black males in the courtroom either shook their head in disgust or stared at the woman accusingly. She could pick anyone...
After a long pause and yet another searching expression, she replied, "No." A chorus of murmurs and chuckles swept the court, to which the judge and bailiff responded with a warning. Burns turned to Ezera and asked him to stand...