Word: barred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spain's traditionally conservative bishops last fall unanimously signed a pastoral letter calling on the government to abandon delays in enacting a mild labor-reform bill, and younger priests began pressing for social reforms. In January, Madrid's bar association passed by acclamation a resolution demanding better treatment for political prisoners. News papers and magazines, given comparatively comprehensive freedoms by the press law of 1966, had become more and more candid in their appraisals of the regime. Labor unrest continued to grow...
Besides those who are exempt from jury duty, like lawyers and doctors, a number of others are excused because they are hard of hearing, have ill spouses, suffer from weak bladders or cannot stand the economic sacrifice. John Carmody, an American Bar Association specialist on court procedures, reports that many people who want to avoid long service purposely do not register to vote (since jurors are often picked at random from voting lists). Others may even lie in court. In murder trials, for example, they may insist that they oppose capital punishment-though such persons are no longer automatically excused...
...that the phones were for bet taking, and some support for the FBI claim that the informant's word could be trusted. The informant's "meager report," said Justice John Harlan for the majority, "could easily have been obtained from an offhand remark heard at a neighborhood bar." Nor, said the court, does the FBI agent's report make up for the shortcomings in the informant's story...
John and Mary pick each other up in a Manhattan dating bar. They never quite catch each other's name, but they go to bed (his place; she has roommates). They spend the next day finding out about each other, fall in love and that evening again head for bed. They speak their final dialogue as the camera follows a trail of clothes across the bedroom floor...
...distance between Mia and Dustin was apparent during the first few days of location shooting for John & Mary. Between interminable rehearsals and takes at an East Side "singles" eatery called Maxwell's Plum, Hoffman hied himself off to mumble inconsequentially with the bit players and extras clustered around the bar. Mia sat tensely at the table that was the focus of the sequence, fiddling with a fork, making conversation with two other actors, and once breaking into a high, put-on Southern accent. The few times that Hoffman lingered at the table to make a time-killing joke, he addressed...